Frederick Burkhardt

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He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Dr. Burkhardt served as President of Bennington College in Vermont from 1947 to 1949 and from 1952 to 1957.[2][3]

Burkhardt graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in 1933 and a Ph.D. in 1940. He also earned a second bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford in 1935.[2]

Burkhardt died on September 23, 2007, in Bennington, Vermont.[4]

References

  1. "Professor Frederick Burkhardt" Darwin Correspondence Project
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