Carl Darling Buck

Carl Darling Buck
Born	(1866-10-02)October 2, 1866 Maine, U.S.
Died	February 8, 1955(1955-02-08) (aged 88) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Spouse	Clarinda Darling Swazey ​ ​ (m. 1889)​
Academic work
Discipline	Philologist

Carl Darling Buck (October 2, 1866 – February 8, 1955) was an American

Biography

Buck was born on October 2, 1866, in Maine (either in Bucksport^[1] or in Orland^[2][3]).

He graduated from

In 1892 he became professor of Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology at the University of Chicago,^[1] and was later named Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Comparative Philology.

In his early career, he concentrated on the

Later, he worked extensively on the Greek dialects, publishing: The Greek dialects; grammar, selected inscriptions, glossary (1910), Comparative grammar of Greek and Latin (1933); and on more general Indo-European issues.

His Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages was called by Calvert Watkins "a treasure house of words, word origins, expressions, and ideas..., a monument to a great American scholar".^[4]

Buck was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1921 and the American Philosophical Society in 1923.^[5][6]

Upon his death, the New York Times reported that Buck spoke 30 languages. Many of Buck's books went through multiple editions, and several are still in print.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• Buck C D (1892). Der Vocalismus der oskischen Sprache. Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium.
• Buck C D (1895). The Oscan-Umbrian verb-system. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Buck C D (1903). A sketch of the linguistic conditions of Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Buck C D (1904). Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian. Boston: Ginn and Company.
• Buck C D (1905). Elementarbuch der oskisch-umbrischen Dialekte. Heidelberg: C. Winter.
• Buck C D (1910). Introduction to the study of the Greek dialects: grammar, selected inscriptions, glossary. Boston: Ginn and Company.
• Buck C D (1933). Comparative grammar of Greek and Latin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Buck C D (1949). A dictionary of selected synonyms in the principal Indo–European languages: a contribution to the history of ideas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. LINK (Academia.EDU)
• Buck C D & Hale W G (1903). A Latin grammar. New York: Mentzer, Bush.
• Buck C D & Petersen W (1945). A reverse index of Greek nouns and adjectives, arranged by terminations with brief historical introductions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

References

Notes

General references

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Buck, Carl Darling". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 720.

External links

• Carl Darling Buck at the Database of Classical Scholars

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Buck, Carl Darling".

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• Carl Darling Buck, A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian on the Internet Archive