Lida to Assume Professorship Of French, Spanish

Raimundo Lida, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, has been appointed to the Smith Professorship of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures.

Created under the will of Abiel Smith, who graduated from Harvard in the class of 1764, the Smith Professorship has been held by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, J. D. M. Ford, Jean-Joseph Seznec, Amado Alonso, Herbert Dieckmann and others. Lida's appointment will be effective July 1.

Literary Figures

Since 1953 a professor at Harvard, Lida earlier taught at the Instituto Nacional del Profesorado and the Colegio Nacional in Buenos Aires and at the University of La Plata. From 1947 to 1953 he was director of the Center of Literary Studies of the Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico City.

Lida is internationally known for his studies of Spanish and Hispanic American Literary figures.

Born in Austria, Lida is the author of Belleza, Arte y Poesia en la Estetica de Santayana, Letras Hispanicas, and Condicion del Poeta.