LC control no. | n 80030562 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Lievsay, John L. (John Leon), 1906-1992 |
Variant(s) | Lievsay, John, 1906-1992 Lievsay, John Leon |
Other standard no. | 0000000078330748 |
Associated country | United States |
Associated place | Durham (N.C.) |
Birth date | 1906-02-20 |
Death date | 1992-03-03 |
Place of birth | Whitesboro (Tex.) |
Field of activity | Italian literature--16th century Italian literature--17th century English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700 Renaissance |
Affiliation | Duke University Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Renaissance Society of America Dante Society of America American Association of Teachers of Italian |
Profession or occupation | University and college faculty members |
Found in | Emery, C. Practice in reading and writing ... 1942: title page (John L. Lievsay) The Elizabethan image of Italy, 1964: title page (John L. Lievsay) The sixteenth century, 1968: title page (John L. Lievsay, Duke University) Duke University Libraries WWW site, viewed February 9, 2023 Archives & Manuscripts Collection Guides page (John L. Lievsay papers, 1937-1989: educator, author, and noted authority on Italian Renaissance literature; he was a Professor Emeritus of English at Duke University from 1962-1975; born in Whitesboro, Texas, John Leon Lievsay (1906-1992) was educated at the University of Washington (B.A., 1926; M.A., 1932; Ph.D., 1937); after teaching at Stanford University and the University of Tennessee, he came to Duke University in 1962 as a Professor of English; he was a James B. Duke Professor of English from 1970 until his retirement in 1975; his specialty was sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, with an emphasis on Anglo-Italian relations; he was a research fellow at the Huntington, Newberry, and Folger Libraries, as well as a Fulbright Fellow in Italy (1953-1954) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1968-1969); he was a special consultant in Italian at the Folger Library (1959-1960); chairman of the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies; and a member of the Renaissance Society of America, the Dante Society, and the American Association of Teachers of Italian) We Remember WWW site, viewed February 10, 2023 (John Lievsay; born February 20, 1906; died March 3, 1992) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 2/20/06) |
Associated language | eng |