William Henry Schofield

William Henry Schofield
Born(1870-04-06)April 6, 1870
Brockville, Ontario, Canada
DiedJune 24, 1920(1920-06-24) (aged 50)
Burial placeAll Saints Church
Education
OccupationAcademic
Spouse
Mary Lyon Cheney
(m. 1907)

William Henry Schofield (18701920) was a Canadian-American academic, founder of the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. He was professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation (1916–1919).

He taught Old Norse at Harvard from 1900 and from 1906 was director of the new Comparative Literature department.