James B. Greenough
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| Born | James Bradstreet Greenough May 4, 1833 Portland, Maine |
| Died | October 11, 1901 (aged 68) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Education | Harvard Law School |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, classical scholar |
| Spouses | Mary Battey Ketchum
(m. 1860; died 1893)Harriet Sweetzer Jenks
(m. 1895) |
James Bradstreet Greenough (May 4, 1833 – October 11, 1901) was an American
Life
James B. Greenough was born in Portland, Maine on May 4, 1833.[1] He graduated at Harvard in 1856, studied one year at the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the Michigan bar and practised in Marshall, Michigan, until 1865, when he was appointed tutor in Latin at Harvard. In 1873 he became assistant professor.[2]
He advocated for the admission of women to Harvard, and in 1882 became a director of the society which later founded Radcliffe College.[1]
He married Mary Battey Ketchum in 1860. She died in 1893, and he remarried to Harriet Sweetzer Jenks two years later.[1]
In 1883 he became a professor of Latin, a post which he resigned hardly six weeks before his death at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 11, 1901.[2][1]
Works
Following the lead of Goodwin's Moods and Tenses (1860), he set himself to study Latin historical syntax, and in 1870 published Analysis of the Latin Subjunctive, a brief treatise, privately printed, and in many ways coinciding with Berthold Delbrück's Gebrauch des Conjunctivs und Optativs in Sanskrit und Griechischen (1871), which, however, quite overshadowed the Analysis.[2]
In 1872 appeared A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, founded on Comparative Grammar, by Joseph H. Allen and James B. Greenough, a work done with great critical care with
His able scholarship was evident in his editing of the Allen and Greenough Latin Series of text-books. Also, he occasionally contributed to Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (founded in 1889 and endowed at his instance by his own class) papers on Latin syntax,
He assisted in the founding of
Light verse
- The Blackbirds, a comedietta, first published in The Atlantic Monthly (vol. xxxix. 1877);
- The Rose and the Ring (1880), a pantomime adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray;
- The Queen of Hearts (1885), a dramatic fantasia;
- Old King Cole (1889), an operetta.[2]
Other publications
- Selections from the Poems of Ovid (1882)
- Select Orations of Cicero (1886)
References
- ^ a b c d "Prof James B. Greenough Dead". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1901. p. 11. Retrieved February 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g Chisholm 1911.
- See the sketch by George L. Kittredge in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. xiv. (1903), pp 1–17 (also printed in Harvard Graduates Magazine, vol. x., December 1901, pp. 196–201).
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Greenough, James Bradstreet". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 550.
External links
- James B. Greenough at the Database of Classical Scholars
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