Curated category
Harvard University faculty
- Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on the 11th of November 1922. He descended from a long line of German Americans whose family fortune rested on the…
- Alvin HansenAlvin Harvey Hansen was born on the 23rd of August 1887 in Viborg, South Dakota. His father Niels Hansen worked as a farmer while his mother Marie Bergitta…
- Carl SaganCarl Edward Sagan was born on the 9th of November 1934 in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. His father Samuel worked as a garment worker who had…
- Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on the 27th of February 1807 in Portland, Maine. He grew up in a house that now stands as a historic site called the…
- James Wood (critic)James Douglas Graham Wood was born on the 1st of November 1965 in Durham, England. His father Dennis William Wood worked as a minister and professor of…
- Henry KissingerHeinz Alfred Kissinger was born on the 27th of May 1923 in Fürth, Bavaria. His family lived under Nazi rule when he was nine years old and Adolf Hitler…
- Herbert MarcuseHerbert Marcuse was born on the 19th of July 1898 in Berlin. His family belonged to the German upper-middle class and identified as Jewish.
- Jaan PuhvelJaan Puhvel was born in Tallinn, Estonia on the 24th of January 1932. His family fled their home country following the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states…
- David LandesDavid Saul Landes entered the world on the 29th of April 1924. He began his higher education journey at City College of New York in 1942.
- Janet YellenJanet Louise Yellen was born on the 13th of August 1946 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Her father Julius worked as a family physician from the ground floor of their…
- Walter BurkertWalter Burkert was born in Neuendettelsau on the 2nd of February 1931. He began his studies at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich between 1950 and 1954.
- Joseph SchumpeterJoseph Alois Schumpeter arrived in the world on the 8th of February 1883 within the town of Triesch. This location sat inside Habsburg Moravia before…
- Oliver Hart (economist)Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart entered the world on the 9th of October 1948. He was born in Britain to parents who both worked in medicine.
- George SartonGeorge Sarton buried his life's work in a garden in Belgium. It was August 1914, and German soldiers were advancing on Ghent.
- Edwin MuirEdwin Muir was born on the 15th of May 1887 at the farm of Folly in Deerness, Orkney. His childhood there represented an idyllic Eden to him.
- Joseph WeizenbaumJoseph Weizenbaum was born on the 8th of January 1923 in Berlin, Germany. His parents were Jewish and lived under a regime that would soon turn against them.
- Olivier BlanchardOlivier Jean Blanchard was born on the 27th of December 1948 in Amiens, France. His father worked as a neurologist while his mother practiced psychiatry.
- Joseph HenrichJoseph Henrich was born in 1968. He earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1991.
- Stephen GreenblattStephen Jay Greenblatt arrived in the world on the 7th of November 1943. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts after his family moved from Boston.
- Gerald HoltonGerald James Holton was born on the 23rd of May 1922, in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father worked as an attorney specializing…
- Elliot ForbesElliot Forbes entered the world on the 20th of August 1917, into a family that defined Boston's cultural elite. His father Edward Forbes directed Harvard's…
- Annemarie SchimmelAnnemarie Schimmel was born on the 7th of April 1922 in Erfurt, Germany. Her father Paul worked as a postal worker while her mother Anna came from a family…
- Cynthia DworkCynthia Dwork received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University in 1979. She graduated Cum Laude that year and earned the Charles Ira…
- Melissa DellMelissa Dell grew up in Enid, Oklahoma. Her parents worked as civilian contractors at Vance Air Force Base. They managed the parts shop and ran a daycare…
- Paul HindemithPaul Hindemith was born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, on the 16th of November 1895. He grew up as the eldest child of Robert Hindemith and his wife Marie…
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the 16th of March 1927. He moved to New York City at age six with his Irish Catholic family.
- Erwin PanofskyErwin Panofsky was born on the 30th of March 1892 in Hanover. His parents, Arnold and Caecilie (Solling) Panofsky, were a rentier mining family from Upper…
- Frank KermodeFrank Kermode arrived in Douglas on the Isle of Man during November 1919. His father John Pritchard Kermode worked as a delivery truck driver and…
- George SteinerFrancis George Steiner was born on the 23rd of April 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. His right arm withered from birth yet his mother insisted he use…
- Charles RosenCharles Rosen was born in New York City on the 5th of May 1927. His father Irwin Rosen worked as an architect while his mother Anita Rosen acted and played…