Anna Granville Hatcher

Anna Granville Hatcher (* 1905 ; † 1978 ) was an American romance scholar and linguist.

Life

Anna G. Hatcher received her doctorate in 1934 from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with the thesis Result Clauses in Old French (published udT Consecutive clauses in Old French , in: Revue des études Indo-européennes 11, 1939, fasc. 2-4, p. 30-69) and became a student of Leo Spitzer in Baltimore . In 1953 she had a Guggenheim scholarship . From 1970 until her death she was a member of the Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Works

• Reflexive verbs. Latin, Old French, Modern French, Baltimore 1942, New York 1973
• (Ed. With Charles Singleton) Leo Spitzer, Essays in historical semantics. Testimonial volume in honor of Leo Spitzer on the occasions of his 60th birthday, February the seventh, Baltimore 1947, New York 1968
• Modern English Word Formation and Neo-Latin. A Study of the Origins of English (French, Italian, German) copulative compounds, Baltimore 1951
• Theme and Underlying Question. Two studies of Spanish word-order, New York 1956
• (Ed. With Karl-Ludwig Selig) Studia philologica et litteraria in honorem Leo Spitzer, Bern 1958
• (Ed.) Leo Spitzer, Essays on English and American literature, New York 1962, 1968, 1984
• (Ed.) Leo Spitzer, Classical and Christian Ideas of world harmony. Prolegomena to an interpretation of the word "mood". Foreword by René Wellek, Baltimore / London 1963

literature

• Yakov Malkiel in: Romance Philology 33, 1979-1980, pp. 328-333
• Samuel N. Rosenberg, in: "Chançon legiere a chanter". Essays on old French literature in honor of Samuel N. Rosenberg, ed. by Karen Louise Fresco and Wendy Pfeffer, 2007, pp. XVI - XVIII
• Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”. 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 279, 330-331

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Granville Hatcher in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)