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Robert C. Holub was known to be an American Germanist, university professor and administrator. He was born on August 22, 1949, and he served as chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). The duration of his reign as chancellor was from August 2008 to June 2012.
Robert C. Holub was born in Neptune Township, New Jersey. However, he was raised in Belmar, New Jersey. He had his education at Asbury Park High School and interestingly, he was the first member of his family to attend college.
It must be noted that Robert C. Holub had his tertiary education at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He successfully graduated with a bachelor’s degree in natural science.
With the passage of time, Robert C. Holub earned a master’s degree in Comparative Literature in 1973. Later in 1976, he also earned a master’s degree in German and a Ph.D. in German followed in 1979. He had a master’s degree in Comparative Literature, a master’s degree in German and a Ph.D. in German from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Robert C. Holub Cause of Death
Robert C. Holub died on August 27, 2023, and he was 74 years old. The cause of his death is yet to be updated.
Academic Work
Robert C. Holub served as a professor of German at the University of California-Berkeley. He also became a leading scholar of 19th- and 20th-century German intellectual, cultural, and literary history. It must also be noted that he served as the undergraduate dean of the College of Letters and Science from 2003 to 2006. Between 2006 and 2008, Robert C. Holub served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Tennessee. Subsequently, he became the chancellor at UMass.
Publications
The publications of Robert C. Holub include Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia: The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, 1981), Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction (London and York: Methuen, 1984), Reflections of Realism: Paradox, Norm, and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century German Prose (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991), Jürgen Habermas: Critic in the Public Sphere (London: Routledge, 1991) and Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992).
Others are Friedrich Nietzsche (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995), Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016) and Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century: Social Questions and Philosophical Interventions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
