Ainsworth O'Brien Moore
Ainsworth O'Brien Moore (born June 7, 1897 in Charleston , West Virginia , † December 31, 1936 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American classical philologist .
life and work
Ainsworth O'Brien Moore, the brother of the stage and screen actress Erin O'Brien-Moore (1902-1979), attended the Harvard School in Los Angeles and studied classical philology then at Princeton University , where he 1916 Bachelor degree in 1918 and Master's degree . In 1922 he became a Ph. D. doctorate and shortly thereafter as Instructor in Latin hired at Princeton University. In 1923 he moved to Brown University . From 1925 he worked as an assistant professor at Yale University . In 1936 he was appointed associate professor. In the same year he died as a result of an automobile accident.
His research spanned various areas of Roman literature and culture. He supported his doctoral supervisor David Magie with the edition and publication of the Scriptores Historiae Augustae for the Loeb Classical Library . In his dissertation he examined the representation and conception of madness in antiquity. Although he limited himself to the high literature and hardly included parodistic and medical views, his investigation came to fundamental results on which later research was based. In Germany, Otto Weinreich praised the book in a critical review. In the early 1930s, commissioned by Wilhelm Kroll , he wrote a comprehensive article on the Roman Senate and a shorter one on the Senatus consultum .
Ainsworth O'Brien Moore had been a Life Member of the American Philological Association since 1923 .
Fonts (selection)
- with David Magie: Scriptores Historiae Augustae . Three volumes, Cambridge / London 1921/1924/1932 ( Loeb Classical Library )
- Madness in Ancient Literature . Weimar 1924 (dissertation, Princeton University)
- Senatus. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume VI, Stuttgart 1935, Sp. 660-800 (translated by Ruth Keimer and Wilhelm Kroll).
- Senatus consultum. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume VI, Stuttgart 1935, Sp. 800–812 (translated by Ruth Keimer and Wilhelm Kroll).
- M. Tullius Cratippus, Priest of Rome . In: Yale Classical Studies . Volume 8 (1942), pp. 23-50
literature
- The Princeton Alumni Weekly . Volume 37 (1937), p. 347
- The Classical Weekly . Volume 30 (1937), p. 148
Web links
- Literature by and about Ainsworth O'Brien Moore in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Literaturzeitung , Volume 48 (1927), Sp. 2297–2299 = Selected writings . Volume 2 (1973), pp. 242-245.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | O'Brien Moore, Ainsworth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charleston, West Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1936 |
| Place of death | New Haven (Connecticut) |