Neil Leon Rudenstine
| Neil L. Rudenstine | |
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| President of Harvard University | |
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In office 1991–2001 |
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| Preceded by | Derek C. Bok |
| Succeeded by | Lawrence Summers |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Neil Leon Rudenstine January 21, 1935 Danbury, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Angelica Zander |
| Children | 3 children |
Neil Leon Rudenstine (born January 21, 1935) is an American scholar, literary scholar, and administrator. He served as president of Harvard University from 1991 to 2001.
Rudenstine was born in Danbury, Connecticut, the son of Mae (née Esperito) and Harry Rudenstine, a prison guard. His father was a Ukrainian Jew who emigrated from Kiev; his mother, a Roman Catholic and the daughter of immigrants from Campobasso, Italy.
Neil Rudenstine is an Episcopalian. He attended the Wooster School in Danbury on a scholarship and was selected to participate in Camp Rising Sun, the Louis August Jonas Foundation's international summer scholarship program.
Rudenstine studied the humanities at Princeton University (A.B., 1956) and participated in Army R.O.T.C. After serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery officer, he attended New College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship and earned an M.A. In 1964, Rudenstine received a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard; his dissertation, entitled Sir Philip Sidney: The Styles of Love and directed by Douglas Bush, treated Sidney's poetic development.
Most of Rudenstine's career has been dedicated to educational administration. Rudenstine taught at Harvard from 1964 to 1968 as an instructor and then an assistant professor in the Department of English and American Literature and Language.
From 1968 to 1988, Rudenstine was a faculty member and senior administrator at Princeton University. A scholar of Renaissance literature, he was an associate professor and then a full professor of English. He also held a series of administrative posts at Princeton:
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