Edward Willett Wagner
Edward Willett Wagner (August 7, 1924-December 7, 2001) was a professor of Korean studies at Harvard University. He was an expert on Korean aristocracy during the Choson dynasty period.
He earned his PhD at Harvard in 1959, and then joined Harvard's faculty, from which he retired in 1993. He was the founder of the Korea Institute at Harvard University in 1981.
Works
- The Literati Purges: Political Conflict in Early Yi Korea, 1974-1975
References
- Edward Willett Wagner. Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Memorial Minute, The Harvard University Gazette, March 22, 2007
- Eric Pace, Edward Wagner, 77, an Expert At Harvard in Early Korean Life, New York Times, December 26, 2001
- Lee Hoon-sang, EDWARD W. WAGNER 1924 - 2001
- Edward Wagner, HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT / 1950-1960; East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Further reading
- Martina Deuchler, In Memory of Edward Willett Wagner, Acta Koreana, Vol. 5, No. 2, July 2002 (ISSN 1520-7412)
- James B. Palais, Edward W. Wagner (1924-2001), The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Aug., 2002), pp. 1137-1139,
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