Walter W. Arndt

Who was Walter W. Arndt?

Walter Werner Arndt was a world-renowned scholar and translator of German and Russian. At the time of his death, he was the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, of Russian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College. With degrees in Business Administration from Warsaw University, in Political Science and Economics from Oxford University, a Masters in Engineering from Robert College, and a PhD. in Comparative Literature from UNC, Chapel Hill, Arndt was well known for his metric translations, which included versions of Goethe's Faust, Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, a number of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as works by Busch, Morgenstern, and others. His translation of Eugene Onegin won the Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize in 1962.