Karpovich Gets New Slavic Professorship

Michael Karpovich, Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will become the first holder of the newly established Curt Hugo Reisinger Professorship of Slavic Languages and Literatures, McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced last week.

Cur t H. Reisinger '12, endower of the professorship, is a member of the Harvard Fund Council and of visiting committees on the University Library and the Germanic Department.

Karpovich joined the faculty in 1927 and has been department chairman since 1949. He was born in Tiflis, Russia, in 1888, graduating from the University of Moscow in 1914. He came to this country in 1917.