American Jewish academic, classicist, Provost of the University of California 1931‒47.

Career Summary

Born in San Francisco, Monroe Deutsch graduated from the University of California with MA in 1903 and PhD in Classical studies in 1911. He taught high school for four years before being appointed assistant in Greek in the University in 1907 then Professor of Latin at UC Berkeley in 1922 and Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences until 1930, Vice-President and Provost from 1931 to 1947. He was active internationally in the the World Affairs Council, the Institute of Pacific Relations, and the American Association for the United Nations, and as adviser to many countries, especially China. His teaching and research lay mostly in Latin literature and Roman history.

Deutsch and Moriz Violin

On March 2, 1939, Arnold Schoenberg named Monroe Deutsch to Moriz Violin even before the latter's emigration from Vienna as someone who could potentially be helpful to Violin on his arrival in California (LC ASC 7/50, [3]); and by late July, by which time Violin had arrived in San Francisco, Schoenberg had written a letter to Deutsch on Violin's behalf (LC ASC 7/50, [6]), resulting in an interview with Deutsch in August (LC ASC 27/45, [15]). It is not apparent that any form of employment resulted from this encounter for Violin.

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