Barrett Wendell

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Barrett Wendell (born August 23, 1855 in Boston , Massachusetts , † February 9, 1921 ) was an American literary scholar and English graduate at Harvard University .

Life

Wendell received his education at private institutions in New York City . In 1877 he obtained his first degree from Harvard College , then he studied law - also at Harvard - and received training in various law firms in Boston and New York. He then left his legal career in favor of philology .

In 1880, Wendell became a lecturer in composition (in the linguistic sense) and rhetoric at Harvard. In 1880 he became an assistant professor and in 1893 a full professor of English. Sabbath years took him to Oxford University and Cambridge University in 1902/1903 , to the Sorbonne in 1904/05 and to India, China and Japan in 1911. In 1917 he retired .

Wendell was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1889 , he was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Henry James nominated him in 1912 for a Nobel Prize in Literature . Wendell held honorary doctorates from the following universities: Columbia University (1913), Harvard University (1918) and the University of Strasbourg (1920).

Barrett Wendell had been married to Edith Greenough since 1890 and the couple had four children.

Works and writings

Wendell's works and writings include novels, dramas, essays and textbooks. For the volume of Cambridge Modern History on the United States (1903) Wendell contributed the chapter on the history of ideas ("The American Intellect").

  • The Duchess Emilia , 1885
  • Rankell's Remains , 1887
  • English Composition , 1891
  • Cotton Mather , 1891
  • Stelligeri and Other Essays Concerning America , 1893
  • William Shakespeare , 1894
  • A Literary History of America , 1900
  • Raleigh in Guiana , 1902
  • Rosamond , 1902
  • A Christmas Masque , 1902
  • with Chester N. Greenough : The Temper of The Seventeenth Century in English Literature , 1904
  • Liberty, Union and Democracy - the National Ideals of America , 1906
  • The France of Today , 1907
  • The Privileged Classes , 1908
  • The Mystery of Education , 1909
  • The Traditions of European Literature, 1920

literature

  • Wendell, Barrett . In: The National cyclopaedia of American biography , 1898.
  • Robert Grant: Barrett Wendell (1855-1921) . In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Ed.): Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . tape 57 , no. November 18 , 1922, p. 518-520 .

Web links

Wikisource: Barrett Wendell  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Nomination Archive. In: nobelprize.org. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wendell, Barrett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar and English scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1921