Edward Parmelee Morris
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Edward Parmelee Morris (17 September 1853 - 16 November 1938) was an American classicist.
Life[]
He was born on September 17, 1853, in Auburn, N.Y.[1] He graduated from Yale College in 1874, then moved to Cincinnati where his father was living.[2] On January 2, 1879, he married Charlotte Webster Humphrey; her father was the Reverend Z.M. Humphrey and a professor at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati.[2] Humphrey and Morris had four children, Frances Humphrey (born 1880), Edward (born 1885), Margaret (born 1886), and Humphrey (born 1987).[2] Edward died in infancy. Frances and Margaret both attended Bryn Mawr College.[2] Morris died on November 16, 1938, in New York City.[1]
Career[]
From 1879 to 1884, Morris taught Greek at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.[3][2] In 1884, he became the Massachusetts Professor of Latin Language and Literature[4][3] at Williams College and was first allowed a year's leave of absence,[2] which he spent the universities of Leipzig and Jena.[1] He returned to Yale as a professor of the Latin language and literature in 1891.[1] He became a significant influence on the work of , who became Sather Professor at Princeton.[5]
Honors[]
Morris received an L.H.D. from Williams in 1904 and a Litt.D. from Harvard University in 1909,[3] on the inauguration of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell.[2]
Bibliography[]
Some of his notable books are:[6]
- The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus[7]
- The Mostellaria of Plautus; with explanatory notes
- On principles and methods in Latin syntax
- On the sentence-question in Plautus and Terence
- The study of Latin in the preparatory course
References[]
- ^ a b c d Archives, compiled by Staff of Manuscripts and; findingaids.feedback@yale.edu, File format. "Guide to the Edward P. Morris Papers". yale.edu. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g 1874, Yale University Class of (1912). Biographical Record of the Class of 1874 in Yale College: Part Fourth, 1874-1909. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company. p. 159.
Edward Parmelee Morris.
CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis. 1915. p. 762.
Edward Parmelee Morris.
- ^ College, Williams (1910). General Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Williams College, 1910. The College. p. 17.
Edward Parmelee Morris.
- ^ Association, American Philological (1994). Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313245602.
- ^ "Morris, E. P. (Edward Parmelee), 1853-1938 - The Online Books Page". upenn.edu. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ Gallup, Frank A. (1899-02-01). "Captives and Trinummus of Plautus. E. P. Morris". The School Review. 7 (2): 113–114. doi:10.1086/434003. ISSN 0036-6773.
- American classical scholars
- 1853 births
- 1938 deaths
- Yale College alumni