Robert Lee Wolff (26 December 1915, New York City – 11 November 1980, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Harvard history professor, known for his 1956 book The Balkans in our time[1] and his library collection of English novels of the Victorian period with over 18,000 items.
[2] Wolff received his bachelor's degree (1936) and his master's degree from Harvard University, where he was a teaching fellow from 1937 to 1941, when he left Harvard to join the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.).
After the end of World War II, Wolff taught for four years at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and then in 1950 became an associate professor in the Harvard history department.
He died of a heart attack in 1980 at the age of 64, while still an active member of the Harvard history department.
His library of English novels of the Victorian period was acquired in the 1980s by the University of Texas at Austin for $2.6 million.