René Wellek

1903 - 1995

country of citizenship: Czech Republic, United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: German, Czech, English

educated at: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague

occupation: linguist, pedagogue, writer, literary critic, aesthetician, literary historian, literary scholar, translator, literary scholar

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class, Sterling Professor, Fellow of the British Academy

René Wellek (August 22, 1903 – November 10, 1995) was a Czech-American comparative literary critic. Like Erich Auerbach, Wellek was an eminent product of the Central European philological tradition and was known as a vastly erudite and "fair-minded critic of critics." Source: Wikipedia (en)