Burkhardt, Frederick, 1912-2007
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Fuller Name
- Frederick Henry
Variants
- Burkhardt, Frederick Henry, 1912-
- Burkhardt, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1912-2007
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1912-09-13
Death Date
- 2007-09-23
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1974
- Organization: Darwin Correspondence Project
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1947
- Affiliation End: 1974
- Organization: American Council of Learned Societies
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1947
- Affiliation End: 1957
- Organization: Bennington College
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1966
- Affiliation End: 1973
- Organization: New York (N.Y.). Board of Higher Education
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Columbia University
- Organization: University of Oxford
- Organization: University of Cambridge
Birth Place
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
Academic
Professor
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Earlier Established Forms
- Burkhardt, Frederick Henry, 1912-
Sources
- found: James, W. Essays in religion and morality, 1982:half t.p. (Frederick H. Burkhardt)
- found: A Calendar of the correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882, 1983:CIP t.p. (Frederick Burkhardt)
- found: Request from the author, 11/23/82(form of name: Frederick Burkhardt)
- found: New York times WWW site, Oct. 5, 2007, May 5 2014(Frederick H. Burkhardt; born Frederick Henry Burkhardt, September 13, 1912, Brooklyn; died September 23, Bennington, Vermont, aged 95; prominent educator, administrator and scholar; BA in philosophy from Columbia 1933, doctorate 1940; attended Oxford, where he met his wife Anne; taught philosophy; headed the American Council of Learned Societies 1947-1974; president of Bennington College 1947-1957; member of New York City Board of Higher Education, 1966-1973, chairman 1969-1971; also helped put the open-admissions policy into effect at the City University of New York)
- found: Darwin Correspondence project, via WWW, May 1, 2014(Professor Frederick Burkhardt; founding editor, Darwin Correspondence Project; editor of papers of William James; member of many learned societies and organizations; honorary fellow, Clare College, Cambridge; served in the Navy with the OSS in World War II, and in Berlin on the US High Commission for Germany 1950-1951; believed that philosophers had something to offer in solving practical problems)
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Change Notes
- 1979-02-28: new
- 2023-09-08: revised
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