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Daniel Willard Fiske (1831—1904) was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York.

Fiske studied at Cazenovia Seminary and started his collegiate studies at Hamilton College in 1847. He joined the Psi Upsilon but was suspended for a student prank at the end of his sophomore year. He was educated at Copenhagen and at Uppsala University. Upon his return to the United States, he acted as a General Secretary to the American Geographical Society andedited the Syracuse Daily Journal.

Upon the opening of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Fiske was named University librarian and professor in 1868. He made a reputation as an authority on the Northern European languages, and Icelandic language and culture in particular.

In August 1880, he married Jennie McGraw, at the American Legation in Berlin. McGraw was the daughter of deceased timber magnate John McGraw, and had inherited $2.2 million upon his death in 1877. Their marriage was short, and by September 1881 she had died from tuberculosis. Controversy over her will's bequest to Cornell left him involved in the The Great Will Case. Following its resolution in May 1890, he spent much of his remaining years in Italy, and collected manuscripts.

His interests included chess: he helped organize the first American Chess Congress in 1857 and wrote the tournament book in 1859, and edited The Chess Monthly from 1857 to 1861 with Paul Morphy. His scholarly volume, Chess In Iceland and in Icelandic Literature (Florence, 1905), was used as source material by H.J.R. Murray for A History of Chess. Another manuscript, Chess Tales and Chess Miscellanies (New York, 1912), also published posthumously, is an anthology covering chess life of the period including articles about Morphy, problems by Sam Loyd, and the history of chess including some fables.

On September 17, 1904 Fiske died at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is buried next to his wife Jennie McGraw Fiske in the elaborate crypt of Sage Chapel at Cornell University. After his death he left a large bequest of 32,000 volumes, the Fiske Icelandic Collection, to Cornell.
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Total Books: 38
Stranger than fiction being tales from the byways of ghosts and folklore
2010 - Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales From the Byways of Ghosts and Folklore (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781171698203
ISBN-10: 1171698208
Genre: History
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Memorials of Willard Fiske Volume 2
2010 - Memorials of Willard Fiske Volume 2 (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781142198077
ISBN-10: 1142198073
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Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature
2010 - Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781142493943
ISBN-10: 1142493946
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Il Canzoniere Di Francesco Petrarca
2010 - Il Canzoniere Di Francesco Petrarca [Italian Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781142705053
ISBN-10: 1142705056
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Mmir Icelandic Institutions with Addresses
2010 - Mmir Icelandic Institutions with Addresses [Icelandic Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781141406456
ISBN-10: 1141406454
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Catalogue of the Dante Collection Presented by Willard Fiske Volume 1
A Catalogue of Petrarch Books
2010 - A Catalogue of Petrarch Books (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781141014828
ISBN-10: 1141014823
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature With Historical Notes On Other TableGames
Memorials Collected by His Literary Executor Horatio S White
2010 - Memorials Collected By His Literary Executor Horatio S White [Volume 3] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781152413788
ISBN-10: 1152413783
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Memorials of Willard Fiske
2010 - Memorials of Willard Fiske [Volume 2] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781152415621
ISBN-10: 115241562X
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Chess Tales
2009 - Chess Tales (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781151081995
ISBN-10: 115108199X
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Catalogue of the RhaetoRomanic Collection
2009 - Catalogue of the Rhaetoromanic Collection (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781117297255
ISBN-10: 111729725X
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A Catalogue of Petrarch Books Includes free bonus books
2009 - A Catalogue of Petrarch Books Includes Free Bonus Books (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780217560467
ISBN-10: 0217560466
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Memorials of Willard Fiske Collected by His Literary Executor Horatio S White
2009 - Memorials of Willard Fiske Collected By His Literary Executor Horatio S White [V.1 - 1920-1922] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781112414725
ISBN-10: 111241472X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Egyptian Alphabet for the Egyptian People
2009 - Egyptian Alphabet for the Egyptian People (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781110100989
ISBN-10: 1110100981
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An Egyptian Alphabet For The Egyptian People
2008 - An Egyptian Alphabet for the Egyptian People [1897] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781436769419
ISBN-10: 1436769418
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Catalogue Of The Dante Collection Additions 18981920
2008 - Catalogue of the Dante Collection Additions 18981920 [1921] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781436799423
ISBN-10: 1436799422
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Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske
2007 - Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection Bequeathed By Willard Fiske (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781578984732
ISBN-10: 1578984734
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