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Arthur I. Bloomfield (October 2, 1914 – October 6, 1998) was an economist, author and university professor. Notably, in addition to his scholarship, he was instrumental in establishing the central banks of a number of countries including South Korea and the Congo.

Contents 1	Life and career 2     Major works 4	Honors and awards 5	Selected publications 6	Personal life 7	References

Life and career Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,[1] Bloomfield received a BA and MA from McGill University in 1935 and 1936 respectively; and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1942.

In 1961 Bloomfield was appointed Professor of English at Harvard, after holding positions at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Akron, New York University (the Berg Professor of English & American Literature 1955-56), and, from 1946 to 1961, at The Ohio State University. In 1971 he was appointed to the professorship in English in honor of Arthur Kingsley Porter. He chaired the Harvard English Department[2] from 1968 to 1972. He became emeritus in 1983 and fully retired in 1986.[1] After his retirement, he taught and lectured at various universities including as the Distinguished Visiting Professor of English at Stanford University (1986).

Major works Over a 50-year career, Bloomfield published over 200 articles and books on medieval literature, language, literary criticism/theory, the history of ideas and wisdom literature. His major works included The Seven Deadly Sins: An Introduction to the History of a Religious Concept (1952); Piers Plowman as a Fourteenth Century Apocalypse (1961); with Leonard Newmark A Linguistic Introduction to the History of English (1963); Essays and Explorations: Studies in Language and Literature (1970); Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1110-1500 (1979); and, posthumously, with Charles W. Dunn The Role of the Poet in Early Societies (1989). In 1993 Elizabeth Walsh and Susie M. Barretta edited a collection of his essays from the last 17 years of his life and published them as The Light of Learning.

Honors and awards Called "one of the truly great medieval scholars" of his generation and "one of the glories of the Harvard English department," Bloomfield was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1949; 1964); was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1963); a corresponding fellow of the British Academy (1975); a member of the American Philosophical Society (1981); and served on the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association during a turbulent time in academia (1966–69).[1]

In 1965, Bloomfield, being recognized for his book on Piers Plowman and his contributions to medieval studies, was awarded the Charles Homer Haskins Medal; and in 1976 he was elected President of the Medieval Academy of America.

Bloomfield also received honorary degrees from Western Michigan University (1982), Binghamton University (1986) and Bar-Ilan University (1986).

He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1967–68); a member of IAUPE[4] (International Association of University Professors of English); and a Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University (1972).

In honor of his career and becoming emeritus, Larry Benson and Siegfried Wenzel in 1982 edited a festschrift for Bloomfield The Wisdom of Poetry.

Selected publications Title	Publication	Publication Date	George H. Brown's Publications' List#[5] "Personification Metaphors"	Directions in Medieval Literary Criticism	1979-1980	200

Personal life Bloomfield married