Peter edgerly firchow biography of william

Peter Edgerly Firchow (December 16, – October 18, ) was an American literary scholar and educator. He wrote extensively on the relationship between British and German literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he was a leading scholar of the British writer Aldous Huxley.

Peter edgerly firchow biography of william

He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota English Department from to and as director of the university's Comparative Literature program from to ^[1][2][3]

Life and career

Peter Firchow was born December 16, , in Needham, Massachusetts, United States, to a German father and Costa Rican mother.

He eventually became fluent in English, Spanish, and German. In , during World War II, Firchow's father was deported from the USA as a hostile alien, and the family followed him to Germany. The entire family returned to the USA in and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Firchow attended Cambridge Latin High School.^[4]