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Contents
1Biography
2Honors
3Education
4Teaching
5Publications
6References
7External links
Biography[edit]
Leonard Swidler was born in Sioux City, Iowa to Josephine Marie Reed Swidler (1901–
62) and Samuel Swidler (1897–1984). His father was a Ukrainian Jew who had come to
the U.S. at age 16, and his mother was an Irish-American Catholic. Eventually the
family moved to Cumberland, Wisconsin, and then to Green Bay, where his parents
owned and operated the Bay Beauty Shop until after World War II, when they bought a
home in Allouez and set up a beauty parlor there. Samuel worked in a paper mill in
DePere and Josephine continued to run the hair salon. In 1935 Leonard's brother Jack
was born, followed in 1940 by his sister Sandra.
In 1957, while they were graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Leonard
Swidler and Arlene Anderson were married. They have two daughters, Carmel (born
1958) and Eva (born 1962), and one granddaughter, Willow (born 2000). Leonard and
Arlene Swidler lived in Philadelphia since 1966. Arlene died at home in 2008 after
suffering from Alzheimer's for 17 years.[3]
Swidler has published over 80 books and 200 articles. [4] He has lectured
on Catholicism, Ecumenism, Interreligious Dialogue, and Global Ethics all over the
world,
including Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Burma, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt
, England, Germany, Hong
Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Moroc
co, Myanmar, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Republic of
Congo, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South
Africa, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, and, of course, the United States.[5]
Honors[edit]
LL.D. from La Salle University, Philadelphia, October, 1977.
LL.D. from St. Norbert College, DePere, WI, October, 2001.
Prize for 2002 from the Academic Society for the Research of Religions and
Ideologies (SACRI), University of Cluj, Romania.[4]
Education[edit]
• St. Norbert College, B.A. (1946–50) - Philosophy
• St. Norbert Seminary, 1950-52 - Theology
• St. Paul Seminary (Minnesota), 1952-54 - Theology
• Marquette University, 1954-55 - M.A. in History; Philosophy and Literature Minors
• University of Wisconsin, 1955-57 - History, Philosophy and Literature
• University of Tübingen (Germany), 1957-58 - History and Theology; Licentiate in
Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) in 1959
• University of Munich (Germany), 1958-59 - History and Theology
• University of Wisconsin (1961) - Ph.D. in History[6]
Teaching[edit]
• Milwaukee School of Engineering, 1955 (English)
• Edgewood College, 1955-56 (Philosophy)
• University of Wisconsin: Integrated Liberal Studies Department, 1956-57 (English and
History)
• University of Maryland in Europe, 1958-60 (History and Philosophy)
• U.S.A.R. Intelligence School, Fort Sheridan, 1959 (German)
• Duquesne University, 1960-66 (History; also on Theology faculty, 1962–66)
• Professor at Temple University, Religion Department, 1966–
Guest Positions while tenured at Temple University
• ACUIIS summer school at University of Graz, Austria, 1972, 1973
• Guest Professor on the Catholic Theology Faculty and the Protestant Theology
Faculty of the University of Tübingen, 1972-73
• Visiting Professor at Saint Michael's College, Winouski, VT. Summer, 1976
• Exchange Professor on the Catholic Theology Faculty and the Institute for Ecumenical
Research of the University of Tübingen, Summer Semester, 1982
• Exchange Professor on the Catholic Theology Faculty and the Institute for Ecumenical
Research of the University of Tübingen, Summer Semester, 1985
• Guest Professor in the Philosophy Department, Nankai University, Tianjin, People's
Republic of China, Summer Semester, 1986
• Professor at Temple University Japan (Tokyo), Summer School, May–June, 1987
• Exchange Professor on the Protestant Theology Faculty, Hamburg University, Fall
semester, 1989
• Guest Professor in the Philosophy Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China,
Summer Semester, 1990
• Professor at Temple University Japan (Tokyo), 1990-91
• Visiting Fulbright Professor at Centre for Civilisational Dialogue of the University of
Malaya, Kualalumpur, Malaysia, summer 2003
• Visiting Fulbright Professor at Centre for Civilisational Dialogue of the University of
Malaysia, Kualalumpur, Malaysia, summer 2004
• Visiting Professor, East China University, Shanghai, China, June, 2004
• Visiting Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June, 2004
• Visiting Professor, Peoples’ University, Beijing, China, June, 2004
• Visiting Fulbright Professor at Centre for Catholic Studies, Chung Chi College, [[The
Chinese University of Hong Kong]], November, 2007 • Visiting Fulbright Professor
at Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan, May 1–28, 2011 [6]
Publications[edit]
Books (including edited and translated volumes)
References[edit]
1. ^ "Journal of Ecumenical Studies". Dialogue Institute. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
2. ^ "Dialogue Institute". Dialogue Institute. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
3. ^ Swidler, Autobiographical fragments, Temple.
4. ^ Jump up to:a b c Swidler, Curriculum vitæ, Temple.
5. ^ "Dialogue Institute Staff". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2010-11-25.
6. ^ Jump up to:a b "Curriculum Vitae".