Frederic de Forest Allen explained
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 University of Tennessee from 1866 to 1868.[1] He attended the University of Leipzig in Germany from 1868 to 1870, where his thesis supervisor was Georg Curtius.[1] He earned his 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)
Notes and References
- Becker . Anja . Southern Academic Ambitions Meet German Scholarship: The Leipzig Networks of Vanderbilt University's James H. Kirkland in the Late Nineteenth Century . The Journal of Southern History . 74 . 4 . 861 . 27650317 . November 2008 . 10.2307/27650317 .
- Book: edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby . The New International Encyclopaedia . Dodd, Mead and company . 1906 . 367 .
- Web site: DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; Frederick De Forest Allen . 6 January 2009 . . August 6, 1897.
