{"id":673,"date":"2013-08-06T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=673"},"modified":"2017-01-20T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:05:07","slug":"amacher-richard-earl-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"AMACHER, RICHARD EARL, 1917-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Literary scholar; University professor. Born&#8211; December 13, 1917, Ridgeway, Pa. Parents&#8211; Albert and Emma (Luchs) Amacher. Married&#8211; Cordelia Anne Ward, August 26, 1953. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Ohio University, A.B., 1939; attended the University of Chicago, 1939-1942; University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D, 1947. Taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1944; Yale University, 1944-1945; Rutgers University, 1945-1947; Henderson State Teachers College, 1954-1957; Auburn University 1957-1984; Hargis Professor of American Literature, 1978-84. Fulbright Professor at the University of Wurtzburg, 1961-1962; University of Konstanz in Germany in 1969-1970.\u00a0 Member American Studies Association (president of Southeastern Division, 1977-79). Member Societie Historique d&#8217;Auteiul et de Passy.\u00a0\u00a0 Member and chair, Auburn Chamber Music Society. Member\u00a0of Montgomery Symphony for 25 years; member Auburn University Orchestra, Auburn Community Orchestra, and other local musical organizations. Received the Poor Richard Almanack Award for his\u00a0contributions to the 250th anniversary\u00a0observance of Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s birth.\u00a0Awarded emeritus status at Auburn on retirement, 1984. Died February 1, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Directory of American Scholars, 5th ed.; Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1982; obituary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Political Writers, 1588-1800. Boston; Twayne, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Franklin. New York; Twayne, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Albee. New York; Twayne, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin&#8217;s Wit and Folly; the Bagatelles. New Brunswick, N.J.; Rutgers University Press, 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Albee. Rev. Ed. Boston; Twayne Pub., 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edward Albee at Home and Abroad; a Bibliography. New York; AMS Press, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Flush Times of California. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism; a Collection of Essays. Princeton; Princeton University Press, 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Literary scholar; University professor. Born&#8211; December 13, 1917, Ridgeway, Pa. Parents&#8211; Albert and Emma (Luchs) Amacher. Married&#8211; Cordelia Anne Ward, August 26, 1953. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Ohio University, A.B., 1939; attended the University of Chicago, 1939-1942; University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D, 1947. Taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1944; Yale University, 1944-1945; Rutgers University, 1945-1947; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6263,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/6263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}