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Name	Keith Leopold
Born	30 July, 1920 Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Died	13 July, 1999 (aged 78) Paddington, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Butlin, Noel George (friend) Booth, Edgar Harold (mentor) Nicholson, George Gibb (teacher) Waterhouse, Eben Gowrie (teacher)
Education *	East Maitland Public School (NSW) (student, 1925-1936) Maitland Boys High School (NSW) (student, 1933-1937) University of Queensland (student, ?-1957) University of Sydney (student, ?-1949) Armidale Teachers' College (NSW) (student, 1938-1940) University of Sydney (student, 1940-1942)
Occupation or Descriptor *	academic (1946-1947) New South Wales, Australia academic (1947-1985) Queensland, Australia
Key Events *	World War II (participant, 1943-1944)
Key Organisations *	Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (office bearer) Goethe Society (Qld) (office bearer) Modern Language Teachers Association of Queensland (office bearer)
Workplaces *	Dept of Foreign Affairs (federal) (cadet, 1944-1946) University of Sydney (lecturer, 1946-1947) University of Queensland (professor, 1947-1985)

* Dates are approximate