Background
Mossner, Ernest Campbell was born on October 22, 1907 in New York City. Son of Gustave and Lillian (Campbell) Mossner.
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biographer Professor of English
Mossner, Ernest Campbell was born on October 22, 1907 in New York City. Son of Gustave and Lillian (Campbell) Mossner.
He received his bachelor"s degree in English, Latin and history from City College in 1929, and his master"s and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1930 and 1936.
He taught briefly at City College of New York, and Columbia before joining the English faculty at Syracuse University in 1937. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939 and in 1945. His scholarship was interrupted during World World War II, when he worked for the Bureau of the Budget and served in the United States. Army.
In 1946 Mossner joined the English faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, serving for several years as editor of Texas Studies in Language and Literature.
In 1970 he was named Ashbel Smith Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Texas. He retired from teaching in 1972, and in 1976 received the honorary Doctorate.Litt from Edinburgh University.
David Campbell Mossner, the only child of Ernest and Carolyn, was born on October 2, 1946 and died in Viet Nam on June 1, 1970. Ernest and Carolyn Mossner died together at home in Austin, Texas, on August 5, 1986.
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While on a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 1968 he was a visiting professor at Glasgow University, where he would later become a member of a committee established by the University to edit a scholarly edition of the works of Adam Smith. Mossner was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, The Modern Humanities Research Association, The International Association of University Professors of English, The Texas Institute of Letters, the advisory board of the Augustan Reprint Society, the South Central Modern Language Association, the Society of American Historians, and the Fortnightly Club of Austin.
Married Carolyn Walz, June 22, 1936. 1 son, David Campbell.