Author talk:Harry Kurz
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Biographical sources[edit]
- AncientFaces.com: "Harry was born on March 23, 1889. Harry died on May 1973 at 84 years old. Harry Kurz's last known residence is at New York, New York County, NY 10017."
- The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography (section K) at AmericanJewishArchives.org, p. 349:
- "Kurz, Harry; b. NYC, Mar 23 1889; d. NYC,May 1973. AB CCNY, AM, PhD Columbia. • Modern language specialist, NYC; faculty Knox Coll, U NE, Queens ColI; author/editor in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, May 14 1973, 34:3."
- Galesburg Register-Mail, 24 January 1963, p. 3 (newspapers.com link). Full scan beghind a paywall but (moderate to poor) OCR text available. Legible highlights: "former professor of romance languages at Knox College", "served as chairman of the language department at Knox from 1921 to 1934", "Now retired at the age of 73, he left Galesburg last evening for Claremont, Calif., where he will be a visiting professor at Claremont College for the spring semester. He will teach comparative literature, which is a course combining English with foreign languages."
- AdamBMorgan (talk) 19:26, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
- Knox College Catalog of March 1922 (Internet Archive link), p. 5, lists Harry Kurz as Professor of Romance Language. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 19:45, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
- He was possibly at the University of Nebraska too. Ten Commandments and One More in Modern Foreign Language Teaching (JSTOR link) from The Modern Language Journal (vol. 20, no. 5, February 1936) is attributed to "Harry Kurz; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska". Kurz appears to have several other papers published in the same journal. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 20:07, 24 April 2014 (UTC)