Raimundo Lida, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raimundo Lida

Argentine academic

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 20-Jun-1979

Profession: university teacher, romanist, literary critic, philosopher, literary historian, linguist

Nationality: United States, Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Raimundo Lida (1908–1979) was an Argentine philologist, philosopher of language, literary critic and essayist.
He specialised in Romance philology, aesthetics, the literature of the Spanish Golden Age and modernist literature.
He taught at Harvard University from 1953, where he was chair of the department of Romance Languages.
The second of three children, his siblings were the hematologist Emilio Lida and María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, also a philologist.