Victor bromberg biography

American philologist (1923–2024)

Victor Henri Brombert (né Bromberg; November 11, 1923 – November 26, 2024) was an American scholar of 19th and 20th century literature.

He taught at Yale University and Princeton University, becoming Princeton's Henry Putnam University Professor.^[1]

Early life

Victor Bromberg was born in Berlin on November 11, 1923, into a well-to-do Russian-Jewish family that had fled Russia at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution and settled in Leipzig.^[2] When Hitler came to power in Germany, the family left for Paris, and Brombert received his secondary education at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly.

As the German army advanced on Paris in 1940, the family fled to the unoccupied zone under the control of the Vichy government and a year later, in 1941, escaped via Spain to the United States, settling in New York.^[2]

Military career

In May 1943, he was drafted into the US Army.^[2] Due to his fluency