Pierce, Frank (Francis William), 1915 - 1999
Biography
Professor Francis William (Frank) Pierce was born in Belfast in 1915. He graduated from Queen's University Belfast in 1938 with first class honours in Spanish, and enrolled at Columbia University, having been awarded a postgraduate studentship. He taught at the Liverpool University as an Assistant Lecturer (1939-40) before returning moving to Dublin where he worked with Professor Walter Starkie, the Professor of Spanish at Trinity College.
Pierce moved permanently to Sheffield University in 1946, initially as the Hughes Lecturer in Spanish, and then as Hughes Professor of Spanish from 1953 until his retirment in 1980. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Sheffield from 1964 to 1967, during a period of rapid expansion, President of the Anglo- Catalan Society, founder committee member, and President of, the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, president of the founding committee of the Asociacin Internacional de Hispanistas and co-editor with Cyril Jones of the first volume of its proceedings.
He died on 19th July 1999.
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Pierce Manuscripts
The papers of Emeritus Professor Frank Pierce (1915-1999), who held the chair of Spanish (Hispanic Studies) at the University of Sheffield from 1953 until 1980. The collection mainly relates to his work on Spanish literature, especially epic poetry.
For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.