Gerald M. Moser

Gerald M. Moser GOIH (born January 3, 1915, in Leipzig, Germany – died March 2, 2005, in Pennsylvania, United States) was a German-American academic, philologist, literary scholar, emeritus professor, and author.

His works were chiefly focused on lusophone African, Luso-Brazilian, and Spanish literature.

Moser served as an assistant professor of Spanish at Bridgewater College in Virginia from 1939 to 1941.

In 1935, he received his first degree with double graduation in Latin, German, and French, from the University of Paris, where he was accorded a doctoral degree in comparative literature and Portuguese in 1939.

He is the author of A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa, a collaboration with Portuguese writer, Manuel Ferreira, and Changing Africa: the First Literary Generation of Independent Cape Verde which was originally published on January 1, 1992, by The American Philosophical Society.