Lindner, Gianna Sommi
appeared in Glenview Announcements, 18 Mar 2010, B27
Description
- Media Type
- Genealogical Resource
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Obituaries
- Notes
- Birth Date: 1928-06-24
Spouse: Hans E. Panofsky
Survived by: Her husband, Hans; two sons, John and David; two daughters-in-law, Helena and Pat; four grandchildren, Sophia, Nora, Martin and Sylvie
Age 81; 51-year resident of Evanston, IL; born in Parma, Italy, the granddaughter of peasant sharecroppers; degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures from Luigi Bacconi U. in Milan; taught English at Technical Institute of Parma; 1957 awarded Fulbright scholarship to study applied linguistics at Cornell U.; married a graduate student in labor economics and refugee from Nazi Germany; 1959 moved to Evanston, Hans established Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern U.; lecturer of Italian Language and Literature at Northwestern, Roosevelt and Loyola Universities; Italian language and diction coach at Bel Canto seminars in Busseto, Italy; taught Italian diction at Chicago Lyric Opera, Music of the Baroque, the Verdi Academy of Music in Busseto and Goteborg Opera House in Sweden; in Chicago area gave private seminars and lessons in Italian culture, language and literature; campaigned for civil rights, divestiture in aparthieid South Africa, ending the nuclear arms race, exposing U.S. imperialism in Latin America and elsewhere and championed to end injustice and suffering universally - Date of Publication
- 18 Mar 2010
- Date Of Event
- February 10, 2010
- Last Name(s)
-
Lindner
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Glenview Public LibraryEmail:genealogy@glenviewpl.org
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