His wife, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton from 1984 to her death at age 51 in 1990.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Sigmund earned a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, at Georgetown University in 1950, studied on a Fulbright scholarship in 1950-51 at the University of Durham, England, and earned a master's at Harvard University in 1954 and a doctorate there in 1959.
In 1956-57, as a lieutenant, he was a political analyst at the European headquarters of the Air Force in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Mr. Sigmund was director of the Latin American Studies Program at Princeton in 1969-70 and for several terms in the 1980s and 1990s.
Among Mr. Sigmund's several books, Liberation Theology at the Crossroads: Democracy or Revolution was published by Oxford University Press in 1990.
Among his several appointments, Mr. Sigmund was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington in 1985-86.
A visitation is set from 6 to 9 p.m., Thursday, May 1, at Stuart Country Day School for the Sacred Heart, 1200 Stuart Road, Princeton. A Funeral Mass will take place at 1:30 p.m., Friday, May 2, at the Princeton University Chapel. Burial is to be in the Princeton Cemetery. A reception will follow at Prospect House at 3 p.m.
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His wife, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton from 1984 to her death at age 51 in 1990.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Sigmund earned a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, at Georgetown University in 1950, studied on a Fulbright scholarship in 1950-51 at the University of Durham, England, and earned a master's at Harvard University in 1954 and a doctorate there in 1959.
In 1956-57, as a lieutenant, he was a political analyst at the European headquarters of the Air Force in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Mr. Sigmund was director of the Latin American Studies Program at Princeton in 1969-70 and for several terms in the 1980s and 1990s.
Among Mr. Sigmund's several books, Liberation Theology at the Crossroads: Democracy or Revolution was published by Oxford University Press in 1990.
Among his several appointments, Mr. Sigmund was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington in 1985-86.
A visitation is set from 6 to 9 p.m., Thursday, May 1, at Stuart Country Day School for the Sacred Heart, 1200 Stuart Road, Princeton. A Funeral Mass will take place at 1:30 p.m., Friday, May 2, at the Princeton University Chapel. Burial is to be in the Princeton Cemetery. A reception will follow at Prospect House at 3 p.m.
https://www.thekimblefuneralhome.com/obituary/2500272
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