Richard J. Schoeck, considered by many to be the greatest living authority on the life and works of Desiderius Erasmus, died on January 29, 2008 at age 87. Dr. Schoeck studied at Princeton University, where he earned an M.A and a Ph.D. His teaching career included Cornell, Notre Dame, Toronto, Washington, Colorado, and the University of Trier. A visiting lecturer or scholar at Yale, Princeton, Dallas and Oxford, at the time of his death he was Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of Colorado and an adjunct Professor of English at the University of Kansas. His publications included a two volume biography of Erasmus and books on Sir Thomas More. In addition, he wrote the following collections of poetry: A Raging against Chaos (London, 1989), The Eye of a Traveller (Mellon Poetry Press, 1992).
Last August Dr. Schoeck presented the opening lecture at the conference "Thomas More: Man of Letters," at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. An audio recording of the lecture, "Utopia and the Annus Mirabilis 1516," may be accessed by clicking here. The file may take a minute or two to load.
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