Albert Henrichs, known for his Manichaeism tract, dies at 74
Albert Henrichs, a longtime Classics professor at Harvard, died on April 16. He was 74. The 10th Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and the first to have been neither born in the United States nor educated at Harvard, he had been appointed with tenure at Harvard in 1973 when he was only 30 years old. Henrichs was born in Cologne, and rescued from the carpet-bombing there to spend his early years in Bad Ems. American GIs barracked in a nearby villa made him their mascot, spoiling the toddler with oranges and peanuts; Henrichs later attributed his affinity for the United States to those early memories. He earned his Ph.D. at Cologne in 1966, then spent two years working on the papyri collection at the University of Michigan before returning to Cologne for his Habilitation, the highest level of scholarly accreditation in Germany, and then moving to Berkeley, Calif., in 1971. Henrichs’ most stunning...