Frederic de Forest Allen
Frederic de Forest Allen | |
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Born | 25 May 1844 Oberlin |
Died | 4 August 1897 (aged 53) Cambridge |
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Frederic de Forest Allen (1844–1897) was an American classical scholar.
Early life
Frederick Forest Allen was born in 1844 in Oberlin, Ohio. He graduated at Oberlin College in 1863.[1]
Allen taught Greek and Latin at the
Ph.D. there with his thesis De Dialecto Locrensium.[2]
Career
Allen was Professor of Foreign Languages at the University of Cincinnati, and at Yale College. He held the chair of classical philology at Harvard for the last seventeen years of his life.[3]
Death
He died in 1897 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3]
Bibliography
- Remnants of Early Latin (1880)
- A revision of Hadley's A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges (1884)
- Greek Versification in Inscriptions (1888)
- Æschylus: The Prometheus Bound and the Fragments of the Prometheus Unbound (1897)
External sources
- Frederic de Forest Allen at the Database of Classical Scholars, author: Meyer Reinhold
References
- ^ JSTOR 27650317.
- ^ edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906). The New International Encyclopaedia. Dodd, Mead and company. p. 367.
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has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; Frederick De Forest Allen". The New York Times. August 6, 1897. Retrieved 6 January 2009.