Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge

Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (born January 10, 1860 in Grand Rapids , Michigan ; † March 7, 1940 in Allentown , Pennsylvania ) was an American classical philologist who served as professor of Latin at Michigan State Normal College (1886-1937) worked.

Life

Benjamin L. D'Ooge came from a Huguenot family who emigrated from the Netherlands to the USA around 1851 and settled in Grand Rapids (Michigan) . His parents were the teacher Leonard D'Ooge and Johanna D'Ooge, geb. Quintus; his older brother was the philologist Martin Luther D'Ooge (1839-1915).

D'Ooge studied from 1877 to 1881 classical philology and physics at the University of Michigan and was after the bachelor's degree (A. B.) from 1881 to 1883 principal ( principal ) at the high school in Coldwater (Michigan) . In 1883 he switched to the University of Michigan as an Instructor of Latin, where he obtained his master's degree (A.M.) in 1884 . His research focus remained Latin, which he supplemented by studying other Indo-European languages . In 1886 he was appointed Professor of Latin and Chairman of the Department of Classics at Michigan State Normal School , renamed State Normal College in 1899 . He spent his entire subsequent career there. In 1895 he became a Life Member of the American Philological Association .

From 1899 to 1901 D'Ooge took vacation and made his first educational trip to Europe. He deepened his studies at the University of Bonn , where he was particularly drawn to the philologist Franz Bücheler and the archaeologist Georg Loeschcke . 1901 became Dr. phil. PhD . He dedicated his dissertation on the use of language by Caesar and the pseudo-Caesarian writings to Franz Bücheler.

After his return to the United States , D'Ooge continued teaching at Michigan State Normal School with a few interruptions. He made further trips to Europe in 1908–1909 and 1927. As a founding member of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (1905), he attended their meetings until 1935. From 1905 to 1908 he was treasurer, from 1908 to 1910 and from 1913 to 1914 vice-president and 1910/1911 president of the association. He retired in 1937 at the age of 77.

Benjamin L. D'Ooge published numerous textbooks and study editions of Latin texts. Together with James B. Greenough and others, he published an edition of Caesar's De bello Gallico in 1898 and a new edition of Joseph Henry Allen's Latin grammar in 1903 .

Fonts

Latin for Beginners . Boston 1911

• Colloquia Latina . Boston 1889
• Viri Romae . Boston 1895
  • New edition under the title: Selections from Urbis Romae Viri Inlustres . Boston 1905
• Easy Sight Readings for Secondary Schools . Boston 1897
• with James B. Greenough and M. Grant Daniell: Second Year Latin . Boston 1899
• Helps to the Study of Classical Mythology . Ann Arbor 1899
• De particularum copulativarum apud Caesarem et pseudo-Caesarianos scriptores usu . Bonn 1901 (dissertation)
• Latin Composition . Boston 1901
• Latin for Beginners . Boston 1911
• Elements of Latin . Boston 1921
• with Dorothy M. Roehm: Junior Latin Lessons . Boston 1926

Editing

• with James B. Greenough and M. Grant Daniell: Caesar's Bellum Gallicum . Boston 1898. Reprinted 1904
• Cicero. Select orations . Chicago 1901. 2nd edition 1927
• with James B. Greenough, GL Kittredge and AA Howard: Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges . Boston 1903
• with Frederick Eastman: Caesar in Gaul . Boston 1918

literature

• Clara Janet Allison: In memoriam Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge . In: Classical Journal . Volume 35 (1940), pp. 513-515
• Ward W. Briggs : D'Ooge, Benjamin Leonard . In: Ward W. Briggs (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists . Westport, CT / London: Greenwood Press 1994, ISBN 978-0-313-24560-2 , p. 138.

Web links

• Entry on Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)
• Information on the estate of Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge, Eastern Michigan University Archives (English)