{"id":12995,"date":"2019-07-23T13:53:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/?p=12995"},"modified":"2019-07-29T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:53:27","slug":"richard-macksey-a-one-of-a-kind-intellectual-giant-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/richard-macksey-a-one-of-a-kind-intellectual-giant-dies-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Macksey, a &#8216;One-of-a-Kind Intellectual Giant&#8217; Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;\u2026and the inexpressible sweet expectation of happiness, of unknown mysterious happiness, took possession of him little by little, and life seemed to him enchanting, marvelous, and full of lofty meaning.&#8221; \u2014From Anton Chekhov, &#8220;The Student,&#8221; one of Richard Macksey&#8217;s favorite stories<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Richard A. Macksey, a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades, died Monday in the Baltimore area after an illness. He was 87.<\/p>\n<p>A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structural thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hub.jhu.edu\/2019\/07\/23\/richard-macksey-obituary-memorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full obituary on the <em>Hub<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A legendary figure in the humanities, he was affiliated with Johns Hopkins for six and a half decades and was known for uncommon wit and wisdom that touched generations of students and colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Richard Macksey, a &#039;One-of-a-Kind Intellectual Giant&#039; 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