Arthur Stanley Pease

Arthur Stanley Pease (born September 22, 1881 in Somers, Connecticut , † January 7, 1964 in Concord, Massachusetts ) was an American classical philologist .

Life

Arthur Stanley Pease studied Classical Philology at Harvard University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1902 and his master's degree in 1903 . In 1905 he was with a Latin written dissertation on the Psalm Comments Jerome doctorate and then furthered his studies at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome .

Pease got his first job in 1906 as a lecturer at Harvard. In 1909 he moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Assistant Professor of Classics (later Full Professor ) , where he also acted as curator of the Museum of Classical Art and Archeology from 1911 . In 1924 he moved to Amherst College as Professor of Latin , and was elected President in 1927. For his services he received an honorary doctorate from Williams College in 1931 and from Amherst College in 1933, which he had left the previous year. From 1932 until his retirement in 1950 he worked as Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University. From 1934 to 1941 he was Vice President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , to which he was elected in 1932, and President of the American Philological Association in 1940 .

In his philological research, Pease dealt mainly with the Roman literature of the late republic and the imperial era . He wrote basic commentaries on Cicero's writings De divinatione and De natura deorum and on the fourth book of Virgil's Aeneid .

Pease saw his research work as the result of an extensive collecting activity, which he pursued in other areas of his life. As an enthusiastic hobby botanist, he worked with his colleague Merritt Lyndon Fernald and wrote essays and monographs on the flora in New Hampshire , which were also widely regarded in specialist circles and sometimes regarded as standard works. Its botanical author abbreviation is " Pease ".

literature

• Louis H. Feldman: Pease, Arthur Stanley . In: Ward W. Briggs (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. 1994, ISBN 0-313-24560-6 , pp. 484-487

Web links

• Entry on Arthur Stanley Pease in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)
• Literature by and about Arthur Stanley Pease in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author entry and list of described plant names for Arthur Stanley Pease at the IPNI