Finding Aid for the M.A. Zeitlin Papers LSC.0353
Finding aid prepared by Paula Zeszotarski, 1995; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Title: M.A. Zeitlin papers
Creator:
Zeitlin, M.A. (Marion Albert)
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0353
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(5 boxes and 24 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1915-1993
Abstract: M.A. Zeitlin (1899-1993) was the chair of the Department of Spanish and Italian at UCLA. He founded the departmental program
in Portuguese, helped to develop a curriculum in Latin American studies, and was a member of the initial committee on Latin
American Studies. The collection consists of Zeitlin's curricular files, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, and publications
and research files as well as the professional papers of his wife, Frances K. Zeitlin.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Nancy Eaton, 1994.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], M.A. Zeitlin Papers (Collection 353). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Processed by Paula Zeszotarski, 1995.
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Biography
Zeitlin was born on August 29, 1899 in Chicago; moved to Arizona and attended the University of Arizona, BA (1918), MA (1920),
Stanford University; continued study of French in Brussels and at the Sorbonne; accepted teaching position at University of
California Southern Branch in 1925; moved to Berkeley two years later, earning a Ph.D. in romance languages with Spanish as
a major field from the University of California at Berkeley in 1931; returned to UCLA in the same year as an assistant professor,
later becoming chair of the Department of Spanish and Italian, as well as a full professor; founded the departmental program
in Portuguese, helped to develop a curriculum in Latin American studies, and was a member of the initial committee on Latin
American Studies; in 1967 he was named Comendador of the Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique by the Portuguese government and in
1968 awarded the title of
Oficial of the Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul; he was awarded the UCLA Medal for Distinguished Service in 1980; after the death of his wife Zell in 1967, he married Frances
Kirschenbaum, the medieval and renaissance bibliographer at the UCLA University Research Library; Zeitlin died on September
8, 1993.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of curricular files, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts of M.A. Zeitlin's publications and research
files, and professional papers of his wife, Frances K. Zeitlin.
Related Material
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Language teachers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Manuscripts for publication
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Spanish and Portuguese--Faculty -- Archives
Zeitlin, Frances K.--Archives.
Zeitlin, M.A. (Marion Albert)
Correspondence, Research Material, etc.
Card Catalog 1,
n.d. / v.d.
Card Catalog (AYALA),
n.d. / v.d.
Card Catalog 2 (AYALA),
n.d. / v.d.
Card Catalog 3,
n.d. / v.d.
box 22
O.S. general - O.S. vocabulary.
box 24
Comparative - end. Includes notes, etc.
Personal and Professional Correspondence
Students ,
to 1958 n.d. / v.d.
box 26, folder 1
Students - Celebration of Spanish Department of Yesteryear, 1964 retirement year.
after 1958. n.d. / v.d. 1981
Students ,
After 1958 n.d. / v.d.
Colleagues and Friends ,
to 1945 n.d. / v.d.
Colleagues and Friends ,
1945-1956 n.d. / v.d.
Colleagues and Friends ,
1956- n.d. / v.d.
box 29, folder 1
Professional UCLA Faculty.
Professional,
n.d. / v.d.
