I received a BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., graduating Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa (1963-67), studied one semester abroad in Vienna, Austria at the American Institute and at the University of Cologne, Germany (1964) and attended Harvard Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences in 1967. I have translated and edited, four volumes of translations of the works of Friedrich Schiller, {Friedrich Schiller: Poet of Freedom}, and one volume of the works of Nicolaus of Cusa, {Towards a New Council of Florence}. The German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was the godfather of one of my fourth great-grandfathers. As an editor of a weekly news magazine and formerly the editor-in-chief of a quarterly cultural magazine, I have experience in editing English text.

As a freelance translator, I have extensive experience in translating patents, patentability reports and challenges to the granting of patents. I also have experience in translating business contracts and sales proposals, power-point presentations, financial texts, medical reports and studies, certificates, including birth, marriage and death certificates, diplomas and school transcripts, legal judgments, lawsuits, website pages and CD booklets. I have also translated articles on architecture, items for an art gallery catalog, a Classical Musicians' Museum website, a health management handbook, personal tax records, pension insurance notifications, brochures for a pension insurance agency and economic reports. Many of the translations I have done of the works of Nicolaus of Cusa were the first translations of those works to appear in English. My translation of On Conjectures was used by the American Cusanus Society at one of its seminars. The Catholic monthly liturgical prayer book Magnificat, published in harmony with the National Conference of Bishops and the Secretariat for the Liturgy published an excerpt from my translation of Cusa's On the Peace of Faith in Nov. 2006. My translation of Friedrich Schiller's `Ode to Joy' was published in The Wall Street Journal, Online, on May 6, 2003. I did the first English translation of Christian Wolff's Preface and Discussion of the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence.