Robert C. Holub (August 22, 1949 – August 27, 2023) was an American
germanist
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, university professor and administrator. He served as
chancellor
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of the
University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) from August 2008 to June 2012.
[" Seizing the Moment: Dr. Robert C. Holub becomes the 28th chancellor of the flagship campus"]
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Early life and education
Born in
Neptune Township, New Jersey, Holub was raised in
Belmar, New Jersey, and attended
Asbury Park High School. He became the first member of his family to attend college. Holub received his
bachelor's degree in
natural science
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from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1971, going on to earn
master's degrees in
comparative literature (in 1973) and German (in 1976) and a
Ph.D. in
German
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(1979) from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Academic appointments
Serving as a professor of German at the University of California-Berkeley
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(full professor from 1989 on), he became a leading scholar of 19th- and 20th-century German intellectual, cultural, and literary history. At Berkeley, he also served as the undergraduate dean, college of letters and science from 2003 to 2006, before taking the position of provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Tennessee, which he held from 2006 to 2008 before taking the chancellor position at UMass.[
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Death
Robert C. Holub died on August 27, 2023, at the age of 74.
Publications
*''Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia: The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century'' ( Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 1981).
''Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction''
( London and York: Methuen, 1984).
''Reflections of Realism: Paradox, Norm, and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century German Prose''
( Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991).
''Jürgen Habermas: Critic in the Public Sphere''
(London: Routledge, 1991).
''Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction''
(Madison Madison may refer to:
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: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992).
*''Friedrich Nietzsche'' (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995).
''Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism''
( Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016).
*
Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century: Social Questions and Philosophical Interventions
' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
References
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1949 births
2023 deaths
Asbury Park High School alumni
Leaders of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
University of California, Berkeley Department of German faculty
American academics of German literature
People from Belmar, New Jersey
People from Neptune Township, New Jersey