Aaron Marshall Elliott
Aaron Marshall Elliott (born January 24, 1844 in North Carolina , † November 9, 1910 in Baltimore ) was an American Romanist .
life and work
Elliott came from a Quaker family from North Carolina. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1867 . Then he studied eight years in Europe, first in the Romance countries, the last three years in Munich. He returned to the United States and taught Romance studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , founded in 1876, for 35 years , from 1892 as a full professor. Elliott founded the Modern Language Association of America and its organ PMLA in 1884 and the magazine Modern Language Notes in 1886 . His student and successor Edward Cooke Armstrong named the publication series "Elliott Monographs in the Romance Languages and Literatures" (Princeton 1914–1976) after him.
Works
- Methods of teaching modern languages. Papers on the value and on methods of modern language instruction, Boston 1910
literature
- Studies in honor of A. Marshall Elliott, 2 vols., Baltimore 1911
- George Charles Keidel and Charles Hall Grandgent : A. Marshall Elliott. January 24, 1844 - November 9, 1910, in: PMLA 26, 1911 (with picture)
- George Charles Keidel, The early life of Professor Elliott, undated 1917
- Edward Cook Armstrong, A. Marshall Elliott. A retrospect, Princeton / Paris 1923, New York 1965
Web links
- Literature by and about Aaron Marshall Elliott in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elliott, Aaron Marshall |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elliott, A. Marshall |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance Studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | North Carolina |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1910 |
| Place of death | Baltimore |