Samuel Montefiore Waxman (October 23, 1885 — June 6, 1980)
was Professor of
Romance languages at
Boston University from 1910 to 1955, and chair of the department from 1937 to 1955. He continued to lecture at the University until 1970. He was honored with a
festschrift in 1969.
His bequest established a fund in 1980 for the purchase of rare books relating to the history of ideas. The Samuel M. Waxman Collection, which also includes extensive holdings in the fields of
Spanish,
Portuguese,
Italian and
French literature and history, forms a part of the
Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.
He was married to painter
Frances Burwell Sheafer, who died in 1938,
[Marian Wardle, ed. ''American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945'' Rutgers University Press 2005, 234.] and then to sculptor
Bashka Paeff
Bashka Paeff ( be, Башка Паэф) (August 12, 1889 — January 24, 1979), was an American sculptor active near Boston, Massachusetts.
Bashka Paeff was known as the ''Subway sculptor'' for the pieces she modeled at the Park Street T stat ...
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20th-century scholars
1885 births
1980 deaths
Boston University faculty