Kuhl, Ernest P.
Dates
- Existence: 1881-1981
Biography
Ernest Peter Kuhl was born in Milan, Ohio, October 10, 1881 of German immigrants. He attended Sandusky Business School, Valparaiso University, received a BA from Indiana University (1907) and his MA from Harvard (1908). On September 9, 1909 he married Lucy Van Dyke Leech whom he met at Valparaiso University and with whom he had two children, Robert Wolfe Kuhl and Lucy Elizabeth Kuhl Belting. Kuhl taught English and rhetoric at the University of Michigan for four years (1908--1912), then returned to Harvard for his Ph.D (1913). He taught at Radcliffe, Dartmouth (1914--1916), University of Minnesota (1916--1918), Goucher College (1918--1926) and in the extensions department of Johns Hopkins (1919--1926), before coming to Iowa in 1926. He taught summers at Maine, Michigan, Stanford, Radcliffe, and Washington. He was a lifetime member of the Modern Language Association and the University of Iowa Research Club. Kuhl retired from the University of Iowa in 1952. He continued to research works of William Shakespeare well into his 90s. Kuhl died at the age of 99 in Iowa City on April 26, 1981.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Ernest P. Kuhl Papers
Professor of English at the University of Iowa for 26 years. The collection is largely correspondence with important Chaucer and Shakespeare scholars.