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Title: William Albert Nitze Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1908-1956
Collection number: 192
Creator:
Nitze, William Albert, 1876-1957
Extent:
4 boxes (2 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
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[Identification of item], William Albert Nitze Papers (Collection 192). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233501
Nitze was born on March 20, 1876 in Baltimore, Maryland; AB (1894) and Ph.D (1899), Johns Hopkins University; studied at European
universities, 1896-98; lecturer in romance languages, Columbia University, 1899-1903; associate professor and professor of
romance languages, Amherst, 1903-08; professor, UC Berkeley, 1908-09; became professor and head of the department of romance
languages and literatures at the University of Chicago in 1909; Pyne professor, Princeton University, 1932; professor of French,
UCLA, 1942-46; named Chevalier, Legion of Honor (France), 1928; served as president of the Modern Language Association, 1929-30;
trustee of the Newberry Library, 1935-42; editor of
Corneille's selected works (with S.L. Galpin, 1907); other publications include
The Old French Grail romance Perlesvaus: a study of its principal sources (1902),
A history of French literature from the earliest times to the great war (1922), and
Arthurian romance and modern poetry and music (c. 1940); he died on July 5, 1957.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Nitze, William Albert, 1876-1957--Archives.
French teachers--United States.