Robert Benson

Robert Louis Benson (1925-1996) was a professor in the department of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Benson conducted undergraduate studies at Princeton University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley under the direction of the distinguished German Èmigré scholar, Ernst H. Kantorowicz. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. A scholar specializing in German history of the High Middle Ages, He took teaching positions at Barnard College, Wesleyan University, and the Free University of Berlin before accepting a position in 1974 with the UCLA Dept. of History. Benson taught at UCLA for the next twenty years, retiring in 1994. Soon after retiring, Benson accepted a teaching position at Yale University.