Isaac Goldberg

From Philosopedia

Isaac Goldberg (1887 - 14 July 1938)

Goldberg, who was born in Boston, studied at Harvard where he received his B.A. in 1910, his M.A. in 1911, and his Ph. D. in 1912.

During World War I, as a journalist he traveled in Europe writing for the Boston Evening Transcript.

Goldberg, who was fluent in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Yiddish, lectured on Hispanic literature at Harvard University from 1931 to 1932.

In 1932 he received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship to write a history of Spanish and Portugues literature in America.

As a translator for Project Gutenberg, he wrote

Brazilian Tales

Luna Benamor

The Quest

The Torrent

In 1936 he wrote Joseph McCabe: Fighter for Freethought.