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[lincse.livejournal.com]

Дорогие коллеги! Не поможете разобраться с фразой, которая вводит меня в тупик? Все дословно понятно, общий смысл ускользает....

To Columbia I am indebted for the privilege of serving on its faculty as Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities during the years 1974-78

Особо смущает, при чем здесь Швейцер.

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[(Anonymous)]

Преподавательская ставка имени Швейцера. Учреждается небольшой фондик, он и финансирует. Иногда называется в честь того, кто денежку дал, а иногда--нет. Сравн: стипендия имени Крупской. или ленинский стипендиат--для студентов в СССР.

[lincse.livejournal.com]

Спасибо большое!

[rita-marucci.livejournal.com]

Я думаю, это специальный почетный пост для приглашенных профессоров, учрежденный в честь Альберта Швейцера.

[lincse.livejournal.com]

Спасибо!

[enigmata.livejournal.com]

Это постянное должность. "Sartori received the Ph.D. from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1946. He was the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities from 1979 to 1994."
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss17/record2017.30.html
Для новых "professorships" типичный "небольшой" фондик $1 000 000 . . . $3 000 000.

[clittary-hilton.livejournal.com]

usually, a named professorship is both an honor + an endowment... when the name is unknown, like Jack and Melinda Smith Professor of Chemistry, this means an endowed chair, named after the moneybag (here Jack and Melinda Smith) who provided the endowment... when the name is known, like Albert Einstein Professor of Physics, this usually means the University itself provided the endowment and named it after a great shadow of the past... The endowed position may also carry the name of a corporaton, Microsoft Professor of Computer Science, etc. There is that poor chap, Mark E. Wohar, the Enron professor of economics at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, who is understandably unhappy... he said he had been subjected to "a little bit of ribbing," and had stopped using the Enron name when identifying himself.

[ex-co-lum-bu730.livejournal.com]

the Enron professor of economics

This is truly hilarious.

[clittary-hilton.livejournal.com]

hilarious but fact! NY Times, Feb 3, 2002 (http://www.uh.edu/admin/media/topstories/2002/02/nyt_0204.htm): "Mark E. Wohar, the Enron professor of economics at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, said he was trying to find out whether the financing for his position was still there."