Dennis Channing Landis

Background

Landis, Dennis Channing was born on December 29, 1947 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Phares Heisey and Ruth (Walmer) Landis.

Education

Student, University Hamburg, Germany, 1967-1968; AB, Franklin and Marshall College, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Connecticut, 1975; Medical Science Liaison Society, Columbia University, 1976.

Career

Lecturer in German, U. Connecticut, Groton, 1972-1975; cataloguer, Connecticut State Library., Hartford, 1977; editor, John Carter Brown Library., Providence, 1977-1996; curator European books, John Carter Brown Library., Providence, since 1997. Clark-Huntington fellow University of California at Los Angeles Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies Los Angeles and Huntington Library., San Marino, California, 1996.

Achievements

• Dennis Channing Landis has been listed as a noteworthy Editor, bibliographer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

President Unitarian Universalist Society, Brooklyn, Connecticut, 1982-1985, 87-90. Treasurer Old Meeting House Restoration, Brooklyn, since 1979. Trustee Topsfield Foundation, Pomfret, Connecticut, since 1983.

Member Modern Language Association, American Library Association, Pennsylvania German Society, American Printing History Association, American Hist.Assn., Biblical Society American.

Interests

• Avocations: book collecting, travel, flying, ecclesiastical and localhistory.

Connections

Married Ann Phelps Barry, September 22,1979.

Father:

Phares Heisey Landis

Mother:

Ruth (Walmer) Landis

Spouse:

Ann Phelps Barry