Thomas Litzenburg, retired director of the Reeves Center at Washington and Lee University (W&L), died May 19, 2018, at age 84.
Litzenburg graduated from W&L in 1957 and earned a bachelor of divinity degree from the Yale Divinity School in 1961. He earned a master’s degree in 1963 and a Ph.D. in 1965 in religion from Princeton.
He taught at Wells College, rising from instructor in 1964 to associate professor of philosophy and religion in 1974. In 1975, he left academia and worked at the National Endowment for the Humanities, rising to assistant chairman from 1979 to 1981. From 1981 to 1982, he was executive director for policy at the Association of American Universities. He returned to academia as president of Salem Academy and College from 1982 to 1991. Litzenburg was an ordained priest of the Episcopal Church and served as college chaplain.
Litzenburg returned to W&L in 1991 as executive assistant to the president and director of the Reeves Center. He co-edited two books on religion and co-wrote and oversaw the production of Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University, published in 2003, the year he retired.
Litzenburg is survived by two children and three grandchildren.
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