Walter W. Arndt
Walter Arndt born 1916 of German parents in Istanbul, Turkey (Constantinople), he is 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 (Oriel College), a Masters in Engineering from Robert College (Istanbul), and a PhD. in Comparative Literature from UNC, Chapel Hill, Arndt is a world-renowned master of metric translations and has produced a number of notable translations including 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.
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