Person

Hanke, Lewis

1905–1993

He taught at the University of Hawaii (1926-27), University of Beirut (1927-30), Harvard University (1934-39), University of Texas (1951-1961), Columbia University (1961-67), UC Irvine (1967-69), and the University of Massachusetts (1969-75). He also served as director of the Library of Congress (1939-51)

founding ed. of HLAS, Handbook of Latin American studies; 1. chief of the Hispanic Division of the LOC; historian of Latin America