American translator, writer and academic (1901–1985)
Haakon Chevalier
Chevalier in 1934
Born
Haakon Maurice Chevalier
(1901-09-10)September 10, 1901
Lakewood Township, New Jersey, U.S.
Died
July 4, 1985(1985-07-04) (aged 83)
Paris, France
Occupations
Writer
Translator
Academic
Employer
University of California, Berkeley
Spouses
Ruth Bosley
(m. 1922–1931)
Barbara Lansburgh
(m. 1931–1950)
Carol Lansburgh
(m. 1952)
Children
4
Haakon Maurice Chevalier (September 10, 1901 – July 4, 1985) was an American writer, translator, and professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley best known for his friendship with physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom he met at Berkeley, California in 1937.
Oppenheimer's relationship with Chevalier, and Chevalier's relationship with a possible recruiter for Soviet intelligence, figured prominently in a 1954 hearing of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission on Oppenheimer's security clearance. At that hearing, Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked.
Haakon Maurice Chevalier (September 10, 1901 – July 4, 1985) was an American writer, translator, and professor of French literature at the University of...
University of California, an assistant professor of French literature named HaakonChevalier. The two had met during a rally for Spanish Loyalists, and had co-founded...
communist party remains unclear. Reports of friends and associates such as HaakonChevalier and FBI recordings could merely portray him as a fellow traveler. Never...
York: Grove Press) A Dying Colonialism (1959), (1965 translation by HaakonChevalier: New York, Grove Press) The Wretched of the Earth (1961), (1963 translation...
his friend HaakonChevalier had had with him about passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets. He also admitted that he had stayed with Chevalier only the previous...
learned of Oppenheimer's failure to immediately report an approach by HaakonChevalier, who had approached Oppenheimer to help the Russians. Teller said that...
Pash that he had been approached by a fellow professor at Berkeley, HaakonChevalier, about passing information to the Soviet Union. The most successful...
have been done the day after Trinity." in order of first appearance HaakonChevalier — writer, friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer Hans Bethe — Los Alamos physicist...
The first translation of The Bells of Basel into English was made by HaakonChevalier in 1937. According to Roger Garaudy, The Bells of Basel is a pioneering...
Dubuffet, New York: Grove Press, 1959 (Translated from French by HaakonChevalier.) OCLC 1310555 Peter Selz, The Work of Jean Dubuffet, New York: The...
Connaissance par les gouffres (1961). Light Through Darkness, trans. HaakonChevalier (1964) Vents et Poussières (1962) Désagrégation (1965) Les Grandes...
published in 1958. It sold over 100,000 copies. An English translation by HaakonChevalier was published in 1961 under the title Holy Week by Hamish Hamilton...
Frantz (1967). Toward the African revolution : political essays. Chevalier, Haakon, 1902-1985, Maspero, François, 1932- (New Evergreen ed.). New York:...
1941, after he had attended a December 1940 meeting at the home of HaakonChevalier which Schneiderman and Party treasurer Isaac Folkoff. On February 13...
Griffiths wrote in his memoir that Brodeur, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and HaakonChevalier were the sole members of the Berkeley Communist faculty group in the...
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