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...member of the Harvard faculty for 30 years, Wolff was an expert on the Balkans and the Byzantine Empire...
...Wolff also amassed one of the world's largest collections of 19th century English novels and at the time of his death was editing a series of reprints of Irish novels...
Born in New York City on December 26, 1915, Wolff received his bachelors and masters degrees at Harvard. He became a teaching fellow here in 1937 but left to join the OSS in 1941. After the war he taught for four years at the University of Wisconsin...
Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, said yesterday he was "shocked to hear of the death of this delightful and charming man." Freidel called Wolff "a brilliant scholar, a man of incomparable erudition...
...Wolff's teaching duties in History 1270 will probably be assumed by Dennis Skiotis, associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, MacCaffrey said...