Jack Zipes [SEP] educated at
recently theories of cultural evolution.
Education and positions.
Jack Zipes received a B.A. in political science from Dartmouth College in 1959 and an M.A. in English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1960. From there, Zipes studied at the University of Munich in 1962 and the University of Tübingen in 1963. He earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature (with a dissertation on the Romantic hero in German and American literature) from Columbia in 1965.
After teaching American literature at the University of Munich (1966-1967)
siblings in a family of nine children, three of whom died in infancy. In 1791, the family moved to the countryside town of Steinau, when Philipp was employed there as district magistrate ("). The family became prominent members of the community, residing in a large home surrounded by fields. Biographer Jack Zipes writes that the brothers were happy in Steinau and "clearly fond of country life". The children were educated at home by private tutors, receiving strict instruction as Lutherans that instilled in both a lifelong religious faith