Bruce Haywood (30 September 1925 – 7 January 2020) was an English-born American academic, who served as a professor of German language and literature, dean and provost of

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and was president of Monmouth College in

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. He died in Galesburg, Illinois in 2020 at the age of 94.

Early life and education

Born in

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, England in 1925, Haywood was raised in

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, Yorkshire. He served with the

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intelligence corps near Bremerhaven in northern Germany for twenty-seven months at the end of World War II, then attended the

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. He then went on to

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, where he studied under Willem Graff for his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1950. He then moved on to

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, where he completed his doctorate under

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in 1956 with a thesis on "A study of imagery in the works of Novalis."Harvard College Library Catalogue "HOLLIS"

Academic career

From 1954 to 1963, Haywood served as a professor of

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and literature at Kenyon College, after having been recruited by the school's president,

Gordon Keith Chalmers Gordon Keith Chalmers (7 February 1904 in Waukesha, Wisconsin – 8 May 1956 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was a scholar of seventeenth-century English thought and letters, president of Rockford College and Kenyon College, and a national leader i ...

. In 1959,

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published his work titled: ''Novalis, the veil of imagery; a study of the poetic works of

Friedrich von Hardenberg Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (), was a German polymath who was a writer, philosopher, poet, aristocrat and mystic. He is regarded as an idiosyncratic and influential figure of ...

, 1772–1801''. From 1963 to 1980, he served as Kenyon College dean and provost. In 1980 he was appointed as the tenth president of Monmouth College, a position he held until his retirement in 1994.

Published works

* ''Novalis, the veil of imagery; a study of the poetic works of

, 1772–1801'' 's-Gravenhage: Mouton, 1959; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959. * ''The Essential College'', Gambier, OH: XOXOX Press, 2006 * ''

: A Yorkshire Boyhood'', Gambier, OH: XOXOX Press, 2007 * '' Bremerhaven: A Memoir of Germany, 1945–1947'', Nantucket, MA: EditAndPublishYourBook.com/ Lulu; 1st edition (21 September 2010)

Sources

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