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Cook, Robert, 1932-2011

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Personal name headingCook, Robert, 1932-2011
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Variant(s)Cook, Robert Geiger, 1932-2011
Cook, Robert Geiger, IV, 1932-2011
See alsoEmployer: Newcomb College
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Employer: Háskóli Íslands
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Associated placeNew Orleans (La.) Reykjavík (Iceland)
Birth date19321125
Death date20110304
Place of birthBethlehem (Pa.)
Place of deathIceland
Field of activityEnglish literature Icelandic literature Icelandic language Old Norse language Old Norse literature
AffiliationTulane University Newcomb College Háskóli Íslands Johns Hopkins University Princeton University
Profession or occupationTranslators Authors Editors College teachers Fulbright scholars
Academic Professor
Found inStrengleikar, 1979: t.p. (Robert Cook)
Dir. Amer. scholars, 8th ed.: v. 3, p. 103 (Cook, Robert Geiger; b. 11/25/32 in Bethlehem, Pa.; Ph.D. (Eng.), John Hopkins U.; prof. of English, Newcomb Coll., Tulane Univ.)
Agnar Þordarson. Medal of distinction, 1984: title-page (Robert Cook) back jacket flap (has written articles and translated works in Icelandic and Old Norse; Fulbright Lecturer at University of Iceland, 1968 and 1969; annual visitor to Iceland)
FindAGrave.com, August 15, 2014 (Robert Geiger Cook, IV; died Mar. 4, 2011)
Princeton alumni weekly, May 11, 2011 (Robert Cook '54; PhD in English, John's Hopkins; taught at Tulane 29 years; moved to Iceland, 1990; appointed Professor of English at University of Iceland; spent the rest of his life in Iceland)
Associated languageeng ice non