Bruce Haywood
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Bruce Haywood, served as a professor of German language and literature, dean and provost of Kenyon College
, and was president of Monmouth College
in Illinois
.
, Yorkshire in 1925, Haywood served with British Army
intelligence corps near Bremerhaven
in northern Germany for twenty-seven months at the end of World War II, then attended the University of Leeds
. He then went on the McGill University
, where he studied under Willem Graff for his bachelor's and masters degrees in 1950. He then moved on to Harvard University
, where he completed his doctorate under Stuart Atkins in 1954 with a thesis on "A study of imagery in the works of Novalis."
, Hayward served as a faculty member at Kenyon College
, where he was professor of German language and literature from 1954 to 1966, then dean and provost from 1967 to 1980. Appointed the tenth president of Monmouth College
, he served in that position until 1994.
Kenyon College
Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...
, and was president of Monmouth College
Monmouth College
Monmouth College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Monmouth, Illinois, United States.-History:Monmouth College was founded on April 18, 1853 by the Second Presbytery of Illinois, a frontier arm of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church...
in Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
.
Early life and education
Raised in Allerton BywaterAllerton Bywater
Allerton Bywater is a semi-rural village and civil parish in the south-east of City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. The village itself is north of Castleford and lies in the WF10 Castleford postcode area...
, Yorkshire in 1925, Haywood served with British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
intelligence corps near Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven is a city at the seaport of the free city-state of Bremen, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It forms an enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the River Weser on its eastern bank, opposite the town of Nordenham...
in northern Germany for twenty-seven months at the end of World War II, then attended the University of Leeds
University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...
. He then went on the McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
, where he studied under Willem Graff for his bachelor's and masters degrees in 1950. He then moved on to Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, where he completed his doctorate under Stuart Atkins in 1954 with a thesis on "A study of imagery in the works of Novalis."
Academic career
Recruited by the President of Kenyon College, Gordon Keith ChalmersGordon Keith Chalmers
Gordon Keith Chalmers was a scholar of seventeenth century English thought and letters, president of Rockford College and Kenyon College, and a national leader in American higher education.-Early life and education:The son of Wiliam Everett Chalmers and his wife Mary Dunklee Maynard, Gordon...
, Hayward served as a faculty member at Kenyon College
Kenyon College
Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...
, where he was professor of German language and literature from 1954 to 1966, then dean and provost from 1967 to 1980. Appointed the tenth president of Monmouth College
Monmouth College
Monmouth College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Monmouth, Illinois, United States.-History:Monmouth College was founded on April 18, 1853 by the Second Presbytery of Illinois, a frontier arm of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church...
, he served in that position until 1994.
Published works
- Novalis, the veil of imagery; a study of the poetic works of Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772–1801 's-Gravenhage, Mouton, 1959; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959.
- The Essential College, Gambier, OH: XOXOX Press, 2006
- Allerton Bywater: A Yorkshire Boyhood, Gambier, OH: XOXOX Press, 2007