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Peter Edgerly Firchow (December 16, 1937 – October 18, 2008) was an American literary scholar and educator.

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He wrote extensively on the relationship between British and German literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he was a leading scholar of the British writer Aldous Huxley. He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota English Department from 1967 to 2008 and as director of the university's Comparative Literature program from 1972 to 1978.^[1][2][3]

Life and career

Peter Firchow was born December 16, 1937, in Needham, Massachusetts, United States, to a German father and Costa Rican mother.

He eventually became fluent in English, Spanish, and German. In 1942, during World War II, Firchow's father was deported from the USA as a hostile alien, and the family followed him to Germany. The entire family returned to the USA in 1949 and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Firchow att