Frederick Burkhardt (13 September 1913 – 23 September 2007) [1] was for many years the President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
His decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constituted a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise.
He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
For many years, Dr.
Burkhardt served as President of Bennington College in Vermont.