Corngold was born in
Brooklyn in 1934. He then studied Sanskrit at the
School of Oriental and African Studies and German at Columbia's graduate school. Having taught at the
University of Maryland, Corngold entered
Cornell University for his Ph.D. program, receiving his doctorate on Rousseau and Kant under the guidance of
Paul de Man,
Robert M. Adams, and
O. Matthijs Jolles. and novelist
Thomas Mann. and
Avital Ronell. Corngold was a visiting fellow at
King's College, Cambridge. He received a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 and a
Berlin Prize in 2010, when he completed a book about Kafka's professional experience as an insurance lawyer . He was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. == References ==