Robert M. Adams (literary scholar)

Robert Martin Adams (1915 – December 16, 1996) was an American literary scholar.

[1] He was the son of George Philip Krapp, a Columbia University English professor, and grandson of Swedish painter Carl Frederick von Saltza.

and Ph.D., all from Columbia University, and changed his name after serving in the army during World War II.

[3] His students at Cornell included future Princeton University professor and Kafka scholar Stanley Corngold.

[1] He was survived by his wife, and his son, Nicholas Adams, who is an emeritus professor of architecture at Vassar College.