Verdel Amos Kolve (January 18, 1934 – November 5, 2022) was an American academic who was an honorary fellow at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and a professor of English.
[1] Verdel was born in Wisconsin in 1934 to Amos and Gunda Kolve.
[2] Kolve gained his first degree at the University of Wisconsin, following which he went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1955, studying at Jesus College.
He stayed on as a post graduate and was supervised by J. R. R.
[4] Verdel died on November 5, 2022, at the age of 88.