Diamond, Malcolm Luria (1924-1997) professor of religion

Born 6 Nov. 1924, to Walter Joseph Diamond and Jeanette C. Luria in Brooklyn, New York. He served in the Navy during World War II in the Pacific, and attended Yale University, earning a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering in 1945, studying at Yale Divinity School in 1946-47, and Trinity College, Cambridge during 1947-48. He served on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence during 1950-51, then was adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Religion at New York University from 1951 to 1953. He was appointed an instructor in religion at Princeton College in 1953, and after earning his doctorate in philosophy and religion from Columbia in 1956, became a full professor at Princeton, where he worked until retirement in 1992. From 1981 he worked in the field of family therapy and marriage couseling, earning an Ed.S. degree in family therapy from Seton Hall University in 1985. Hs first marriage to Barbara Reingold ended in divorce. He married Denise Jarret in Princeton in July 1976. He died 27 Dec. 1997 in New Jersey and two sons survived him: Michael and Jonathan.

Obituary written by Princeton University Office of Communications, Jan. 5, 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/20060915214417/http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/98/q1/0105-diamond.html