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Daniel Willard Fiske


Born
in Ellisburg, New York, The United States
November 11, 1831

Died
September 27, 1904


Daniel Willard Fiske was an American librarian and scholar.

Fiske studied at Cazenovia Seminary and started his collegiate studies at Hamilton College in 1847. He joined the Psi Upsilon but was suspended for a student prank at the end of his sophomore year. He was educated at Copenhagen and at Uppsala University. Upon his return to the United States, he acted as a General Secretary to the American Geographical Society and edited the Syracuse Daily Journal.

Upon the opening of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Fiske was named university librarian and professor in 1868. He made a reputation as an authority on the Northern European languages, and Icelandic language and culture in particular.

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Memorials of Willard Fiske

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Catalogue of the Petrarch C...

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Chess In Iceland And In Ice...

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“Others may talk of the Round Table with its 50 knights, but I greatly prefer the square table with only four knights”
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