Schapiro Named Norton Lecturer For Next Year

Art historian Meyer Schapiro of Columbia University will be the Charles Elliot Norton Professor of Poetry here next year.

He will deliver a series of public lectures on romanesque architechtural sculpture. The Norton Professorship is devoted to poetry "interpreted in the broadest sense to include, together with verse, all poetic expression in language, music, or the fine arts."

Schapiro will stay in Elliot House during his year at Harvard.

He has been on the Columbia faculty for almost 40 years. He has also lectured at the University of London, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Cornell, Indiana and New York University. He will be Slade Professor of Art at Oxford in 1968. Schapiro is noted for his contributions of the study of medieval painting and sculpture and of nineteenth and twentieth century art.

He received an Award for Distinction 1940 from the American Council of Learned Societies, and in 1966 the Creative Arts Award of Brandeis.

A native of Lithuania, he came to this country at the age of three, attended public school in Brooklyn, and received his B.A. (1924), M.A. (1926) and Ph. D (1929) from Columbia.