Frederick Burkhardt
British academic

Frederick Burkhardt

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British academic
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
13 September 1913
Death:
23 September 2007
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Frederick Burkhardt (13 September 1913 – 23 September 2007) [1] was for many years the President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). His decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constituted a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.