OLIVER, Revilo Pendleton. Corpus Christi, TX 7.7.1908 — Urbana, IL 20.8.1994. U.S. Classical Scholar and Racist Publisher. Son of the elder R. P. Oliver (1853–1929). After high school in Illinois he moved to California and studied Sanskrit on his own. Then studied at Pomona College (B.A.) and Classics at University of Illinois, Ph.D. 1940 (under W. A. Oldfather). Debuted with Sanskrit translation, but then turned to other things. In 1942-45 served in a war office in Washington, DC. Back in Urbana Assistant Professor 1945, Associate Professor 1947 and in 1953-77 Professor of Classics. Married 1930 Grace Needham (1902–1997).

After a study trip to Italy in 1953-54 Oliver decided that communism had infiltrated American society and administration and devoted the rest of his life to extremist activity, writing a great number of articles, etc. He was also scholar of Spanish and Italian, but a racist and antisemitist. Died by suicide.

Publications: Translated: Śūdraka: Mṛcchakaṭika. The little clay cart. A drama in ten acts. 250 p. Illinois Studies in Lang. and Literature 23:1-2. Urbana, Illinois 1938.

– Wrote on Classics and Renaissance, not much.

– A number of extremist conservative articles, often expressing anti-Semitism and white supremacy, also anti-Communist and anti-Christian.

Sources: Wikipedia with photo; stray notes in Internet.