Sigmund Eisner (academic)
Sigmund Eisner (December 9, 1920 – December 18, 2012) was an American scholar of medieval literature. A professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, he was a noted expert on Geoffrey Chaucer and was frequently consulted on matters of astronomy in Chaucer.[1][2]
Biography
Eisner was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, on December 9, 1920, but was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He enrolled at the University of Arizona in 1939, but joined the Army after World War II. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1947 and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1955, then was a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland.
Eisner taught at Oregon State University and Dominican College before returning to the University of Arizona, where he taught for over forty years. He died on December 18, 2012.[3]
Select bibliography
- A Tale of Wonder. A Source Study of The Wife of Bath's Tale (Wexford: John English, 1957)[4][5]
- The Tristan Legend: A Study in Sources (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1969)[6][7][8][9][10]
- Geoffrey Chaucer, A Treatise on the Astrolabe. Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer 6 (Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2006; ed. with Marijane Osborn)[11][12][13]
References
- ↑ Glanz, James (7 March 2000). "In Chaucer Tale, a Clue to an Astronomic Reality". The New York Times. p. 6. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ↑ Osborn, Marijane (2002). Time and the Astrolabe in the Canterbury Tales. U of Oklahoma P. p. xv. ISBN 9780806134031. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ↑ "Professor Emeritus Sigmund Eisner: Obituary". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ↑ MacQueen, John (1959). "Rev. of Eisner, A Tale of Wonder". The Review of English Studies. new series 10 (40): 406–407.
- ↑ Meyer, Robert T. (1959). "Rev. of Eisner, A Tale of Wonder". Modern Language Notes 74 (8): 734–35.
- ↑ Richmond, W. Edson (1970). "Rev. of Eisner, The Tristan Legend". The Journal of American Folklore 83 (329): 360–61.
- ↑ Williams, Mary (1971). "Rev. of Eisner, The Tristan Legend". Folklore 82 (2): 169–70.
- ↑ Mitchell, Jerome (1971). "Rev. of Eisner, The Tristan Legend". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 70 (1): 146–49.
- ↑ Aho, Gray L. (1970). "Rev. of Eisner, The Tristan Legend". Western Folklore 29 (4): 294–97.
- ↑ Cormier, Raymond J. (1970). "Rev. of Eisner, The Tristan Legend". The French Review 44 (1): 250.
- ↑ Snedegar, Keith (2004). "Rev. of Eisner, Osborn, Chaucer: A Treatise on the Astrolabe". Isis 95 (4): 694–95.
- ↑ Eagleton, Catherine (2005). "Rev. of Eisner, Osborn, Chaucer: A Treatise on the Astrolabe". The British Journal for the History of Science 38 (4): 478.
- ↑ Edwards, Michael (2004). "Rev. of Eisner, Osborn, Chaucer: A Treatise on the Astrolabe". Early Science and Medicine 9 (2): 163–65.