The campus community mourns the passing of Charles Pinter, who died on Monday,
July 3. Charles retired as professor emeritus of mathematics in 2004 after more than 38
years of service to Bucknell.
Three of Charles’ children, Marco Pinter ’87, Andres Pinter ’94, and Adrian Pinter ’02
are Bucknell alumni.
Included below is the complete text of the obituary, as provided by the family.
I encourage you to visit our In Memoriam site to share personal notes of sympathy and
remembrance with others.
On behalf of our entire University community, I extend our deepest sympathies to
Charles’ family, as well as to all who knew him at Bucknell.
John C. Bravman
President
Charles C. Pinter, 91, of Lewisburg, died Monday, July 3, 2023, at his home.
He was born March 5,1932, in Hungary, a son of the late Anton and Margit Pinter. On
March 20,1964, he married the former Donna Krewedl, who preceded him in death on
Sept. 11, 2020. Together they celebrated 56 years of marriage.
As Hungarians of Jewish ancestry, his family left Hungary before World War II to
escape persecution when he was 3 years old, and found themselves in Tangier,
Morocco, where he spent his childhood. They eventually traveled by ship to New
York, where they settled.
After finishing his bachelor’s degree at Columbia University, he returned to Paris for
graduate studies. He wrote much of his PhD thesis over years of sitting with a
cappuccino in the Cafe aux Deux Magots, the iconic Latin quarter cafe in Paris and
known historical hangout of Hemingway, Picasso, Julia Child, James Joyce and many
others. The streets of Paris are where he met the mother of his children, Donna
Pinter, a recently-graduated American student on her first trip to Europe.
A few years later, a job offer in the mathematics department at Bucknell University
brought them back to the U.S. He taught at Bucknell University for over 30 years, and
was part of a tightly-knit community of other Bucknell faculty families.
He loved to travel, and spent much of his life doing it. He spoke eight languages
fluently and could get by in some others. In his later years, he particularly loved to
return to Paris and the Greek islands.
He wrote multiple books which were published over the years, mostly mathematics.
He wrote his last book in his mid-80s, published in 2020: “Mind and the Cosmic Order:
How the Mind Creates the Features & Structure of All Things, and Why this Insight
Transforms Physics,” a multi-disciplinary study of perception and consciousness.
He leaves behind his four children, Nicholas, Marco, Andres and Adrian, and eight
grandchildren including Alessandra, Sophia, Isabella, Phillip, Irida, Madeleine, Penny
and Ananda.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 18, in the Lewisburg
Cemetery.
The family is being assisted by Cronrath-Grenoble Funeral Home, South Second and
St. Louis streets, Lewisburg.
Expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.cronrathgrenoblefuneralhome.com.
CHARLES PINTER had a brilliant mind, was a versatile polyglot, and a wonderful conversationalist.
As a tribute to Charles while he was still with us, the journal of which I am editor, GESTALT REVIEW, published a review -commentary of his latest book (2020),
“Mind and the Cosmic Order: How the Mind Creates the Features & Structure of All Things, and Why this Insight Transforms Physics,” a multi-disciplinary study of perception and consciousness.
The review, which can be accessed in Gestalt Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2021): 143-49, was penned by GRACE M. BURTON, Bucknell ’80.
Te echaré de menos, Carlitos. SUSAN L. FISCHER, PROFESSOR EMERITA, SPANISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATAURE