James N.
Hardin Jr., an American Germanist, died on March 16, 2026, at age 87. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 17, 1939, he earned a BA in German from Washington and Lee University in 1960.
He received a Fulbright scholarship that same year to attend the Free University of Berlin, and later earned an MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964 and a PhD in 1967. Hardin taught in the department of Germanic, Slavic, oriental languages and literatures at the University of South Carolina from 1969 to 1999, and was named a distinguished professor in 1999.
James Neal Hardin Jr. (February 17, 1939 – March 16, 2026) was an American Germanist.