F. O. Matthiessen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

F. O. Matthiessen

American academic

Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1902

Place of Birth: Pasadena, California, United States

Date of Death: 01-Apr-1950

Profession: historian, journalist, literary critic, literary historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Francis Otto Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 – April 1, 1950) was an educator, scholar and literary critic influential in the fields of American literature and American studies.
His best known work, American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, celebrated the achievements of several 19th-century American authors and had a profound impact on a generation of scholars.
It also established American Renaissance as the common term to refer to American literature of the mid-nineteenth century.
Matthiessen was well known for his support of liberal causes and progressive politics.
His contributions to the Harvard University community have been memorialized in several ways, including a recently endowed visiting professorship.