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Philip Schwyzer

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American-British lecturer and author

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According to Wikipedia, Philip Schwyzer is an American-British literary scholar and author, who since 2001 has been Professor of Renaissance Literature at Exeter University. Family background Schwyzer was born in Santa Barbara, California. His father was Hubert Schwyzer , a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who was born in Austria, taken to England as a child when his parents, a Vienna-based Jewish physician father and half-Jewish mother, fled after the Anschluss, and later emigrated to California. His mother, Alison Schwyzer, taught philosophy at Monterey Peninsula College. His parents divorced when he was young, and, with his elder brother, he was raised by his mother in Carmel, California. His brother, Hugo, is an author, blogger, and former academic at Pasadena City College.

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