Background
Silz, Walter was born on September 27, 1894 in Cleveland. Son of Max Alexander and Friederike Caroline (Lieb) Silz.
Silz, Walter was born on September 27, 1894 in Cleveland. Son of Max Alexander and Friederike Caroline (Lieb) Silz.
Born to a German-American family in Cleveland, Silz received his Bachelor of Arts in 1917 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1922 from Harvard University.
Professor German, Harvard and Radcliffe, 1922-1936;
professor and head German department, Washington University, 1936-1939;
professor and head German department, Swarthmore College, 1939-1948;
professor, head Germanic section, Princeton, 1948-1954;
Gebhard Professor Germanic languages, literature, Columbia, from 1954. Guggenheim fellow, 1926-1927, 60-61. Harvard exchange professor to western colleges, 1929-1930.
Visiting professor Princeton, 1947-1948, University of California at Berkeley, summer 1949, Indiana U., 1965.
(Its founders and Heinrich von Kleist)
Member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers German, American Association of University Professors, Phi Beta Kappa. M C.
Married Frieda R. Osgood, June 23, 1922 (deceased). Married Priscilla M. Kramer, June 24, 1939.