Daniel C. Gerould, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Daniel C. Gerould

American academic

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1928

Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 13-Feb-2012

Profession: translator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Daniel Charles Gerould (March 28, 1928 – February 13, 2012) was the Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center and Director of Publications of the Martin E.
Segal Theatre Center.
A scholar, teacher, translator, editor, and playwright, Gerould was a specialist in US melodrama, Central and Eastern European theatre of the twentieth century, and fin-de-siècle European avant-garde performance.
Gerould was one of the world’s most recognized “Witkacologists,” a leading scholar and translator of the work of Polish playwright, novelist, painter, and philosopher Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz ("Witkacy").
Gerould was best known for introducing English-language audiences to the writings of Witkiewicz through such work as Stanislaw I.
Witkiewicz, The Beelzebub Sonata: Plays, Essays, Documents (PAJ Publications 1980), Witkacy: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz as an Imaginative Writer (University of Washington Press, 1981), The Witkiewicz Reader (Northwestern University Press, 1992), and his original translations of most of Witkiewicz’s plays.