Edward Willett Wagner

Edward Willett Wagner (August 7, 1924 – December 7, 2001) was a professor of Korean studies at Harvard University. He was an expert on Korean aristocracy during the Choson dynasty period.

He earned his PhD at Harvard in 1959, and then joined Harvard's faculty, from which he retired in 1993. He was the founder of the Korea Institute at Harvard University, in 1981.

Works

  • The Literati Purges: Political Conflict in Early Yi Korea, 1974-1975
  • A New History of Korea (English translation)

References

Further reading

  • Martina Deuchler, In Memory of Edward Willett Wagner, Acta Koreana, Vol. 5, No. 2, July 2002 (ISSN 1520-7412)
  • James B. Palais, Edward W. Wagner (1924-2001), The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Aug., 2002), pp. 1137-1139,



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