Charles William Hendel

16 Dec 1890 – 12 Nov 1982

Dr. Charles William Hendel Jr., born in Reading, PA, was retired chairman of Yale University's department of philosophy. He graduated from Princeton at the head of his class in 1913. After study at the University of Marburg in Germany and the University of France in Paris, he was awarded a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1917. He taught philosophy at Williams College in 1919 and 1920, and then at Princeton until 1929. From 1929-40, Dr. Hendel was professor of moral philosophy and later was dean of the faculty of arts and science at McGill University in Montreal. In 1940, he joined Yale as Clark Profes