Peter Bachrach, a former political science professor at Temple, died on Friday of what was likely a stroke, according to a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was 89.

Bachrach, who rasied six children with his first wife in Ardmore, died in his home in Southwest Harbor, Maine. After his first wife died in 1975, Bachrach remarried and moved to Center City, where he lived before relocating with his second wife to Maine. 

He was a faculty member at Bryn Mawr College for more than two decades before joining Temple in 1968. He retired in 1988, but not before he fought rising Temple tuition and pushed for the American Political Science Association to take a stand against the Vietnam War.

Bachrach is survived by his current wife, five daughters, a son, four stepchildren, a sister and 22 grandchildren.

Comment from the university was not immediately available.