Walter J. Kaiser (May 31, 1931 – January 5, 2016) was an American academic.
He was the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Harvard University.
From 1988 to 2002, he was the director of Villa I Tatti.
In 1966, Kaiser married Neva Goodwin, a member of the Rockefeller family. They had two children, Miranda and David Kaiser.
He earned a BA and PhD from Harvard University.
Books
- Praisers Of Folly (Harvard University Press, 1963)
References
- ^ "Walter Kaiser dies". Harvard Gazette. January 12, 2016.
- "Harvard Names Head Of Renaissance Center". January 19, 1988 – via NYTimes.com.
- "Neva Rockefeller Engaged to Wed Walter J. Kaiser; Niece of Governor Will Be Bride of Professor at Harvard, Author". October 18, 1966 – via NYTimes.com.
- https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/01/walter-kaiser-dies/
- MacLure, Millar (July 29, 1964). "Walter Kaiser. Praisers of Folly: Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1963. 318 pp. $7.75". Renaissance News. 17 (2): 110–111. doi:10.2307/2858559 – via Cambridge University Press.