Frederick Burkhardt

{{Short description|American academic (1913–2007)}}

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| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|9|23|1913|9|13}}

| death_place = Bennington, Vermont

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| education = Columbia University
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| office = President of Bennington College

| term_start = 1947

| term_end = 1949

| predecessor = Lewis Webster Jones

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| termstart2 = 1952

| termend2 = 1957

| successor2 = William C. Fels

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Frederick Burkhardt (13 September 1913 – 23 September 2007)"[https://web.archive.org/web/20071101195839/http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/content/view/122/1/ Professor Frederick Burkhardt]" Darwin Correspondence Project was an American educator and foundation administrator. He was President of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), then after his retirement devoted decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin.

He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Dr. Burkhardt served as President of Bennington College in Vermont from 1947 to 1949 and from 1952 to 1957.{{Cite web|date=April 2008|title=Obituaries|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/mar_apr08/obituaries.html|url-status=live|access-date=June 9, 2021|website=Columbia College Today|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609101151/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/mar_apr08/obituaries.html |archive-date=2021-06-09 }}{{Cite web|first=John|last= Waller|title=Former Bennington College leader dies|url=https://www.benningtonbanner.com/local-news/former-bennington-college-leader-dies/article_f2eaea49-e85d-5de5-91dd-7c70397dbd28.html|access-date=2021-06-09|website=Bennington Banner|language=en}}

Burkhardt graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in 1933 and a Ph.D. in 1940. He also earned a second bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford in 1935.

Burkhardt died on September 23, 2007, in Bennington, Vermont.{{Cite news |last=Peterson |first=Alison J. |date=2007-10-05 |title=Frederick H. Burkhardt, a Prominent Educator, Dies at 95 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/us/05burkhardt.html |access-date=2022-08-12 |issn=0362-4331}}