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James N. Hardin Jr. Germanist dead at age 87

James N. Hardin Jr.

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.

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