KARL KROEBER

KROEBER--Karl. Mellon Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University, died at his home November 8 at age 82. A legendary teacher, Kroeber was beloved by generations of students for the intensity of the intellectual challenges he offered them in classes ranging from Romantic Poetry to Native American literatures. After receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1956, he taught at the University of Wisconsin until 1970, when he returned to Columbia, retiring in June 2009. Respected as an inquiring scholar, Kroeber wrote many books going beyond Romantic Poetry to explore literary connections with such subjects as art, science, ecology and film, as well as Native American literatures. He is survived by his wife Jean, sons Paul and Arthur, daughter Katharine K. Wiley and four grandchildren, as well as brothers Clifton and Theodore and sister Ursula K. LeGuin. There will be a memorial service at Columbia on April 8.