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Robert McConkie Rehder (1935 - April 6, 2009) was an American poet and literary scholar. He authored two books of poetry and several scholarly volumes. Rehder was professor of English and American literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He lived for many years in Corminboeuf in French-speaking Switzerland. In his poetry he treated the small village as a center of cultural life. ==Biography== Robert Rehder was born in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1935. He was the first son of Theodore Marten Rehder (1908-1991) and Alyce Marguerite ("Marge") McConkie Rehder (1907-1974). Theodore Rehder was the first director of Dormitories and Dining Services at the University of Iowa, serving from 1929 to 1976. Robert and his brother Richard (1938-2005) attended University High School on the State University of Iowa campus. Robert graduated in 1953.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guide to the Ted Rehder Papers )〕 Robert Rehder matriculated at Princeton University in 1953. In 1954 he won the Morris W. Croll Poetry Prize.〔''Princeton Alumni Weekly'' 55. "Commencement Prize List." October 1, 1954. Print.〕 He graduated in 1957 with a bachelor of arts in Near Eastern Studies. His brother Richard also graduated from Princeton, with highest honors in mathematics. Richard went on to work in the Navy Space program as a mathematician.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard Rehder )〕 After graduation, Rehder studied at the Ecole des langues orientales in Paris, France〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carcanet Press Biography )〕 on a Rotary Grant〔 and then at the University of Tehran, where he also taught English grammar. He returned to Princeton, completing his doctorate in Oriental languages and literature in 1970. His dissertation is titled "Hafiz: An Introduction." According to Princeton Alumni Weekly, Rehder "claimed to be the first to make a scientific collection of plants for Kew Gardens from the big deserts of eastern Iran."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Princeton Alumnus Biography )〕 He lived for about two years in Tehran, during which time he traveled to Afghanistan and across Turkey. In Iran, he crossed the Dasht-e Kavir and Dasht-e Lut deserts.〔 The Ted Rehder Papers at the University of Iowa Archives contain correspondence between Robert Rehder and his parents during Robert's years in Switzerland and his stay in Tehran. One of his publishers, Carcanet Press, reports that, prior to his professional teaching career, Rehder "worked as a checkroom attendant, private dining-room waiter, painter, busboy, gardener, picked apples, polished silver, () and () ice-skating in a nursery school."〔 He taught English composition at Princeton University. He taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the University of Stirling in Scotland, before finding a position at the University of Fribourg in 1985. He was a visiting professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Princeton Alumnus Notice )〕 Rehder's early scholarly and literary work included free verse translations of the 14th-century Persian poet Hafiz. This work was published in 1974 as “The Unity of the Ghazals of Hafiz.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Translations of Hafez in English )〕 He published books on Wordsworth, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Stephen Crane. At the time of his death he was working on his third volume of poetry.〔 In 2005, Anthony Mortimer edited a Festschrift for Robert Rehder, ''From Wordsworth to Stevens: Essays in Honor of Robert Rehder'' (Bern: Peter Lang AG). The volume, with essays by sixteen international scholars and poets, honors his classroom teaching and his substantial scholarship in the history of modern poetry. Robert Rehder died of a heart attack April 6, 2009, in Oxford, England, where he had been teaching American literature at Oxford University since his retirement.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Rehder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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