Benjamin Parsons Bourland

Benjamin Parsons Bourland (born May 2, 1870 in Peoria (Illinois) , † January 12, 1943 ) was an American Romanist and Hispanist .

Life

From 1882 to 1885 Bourland was a student at grammar schools in Paris, Neuchâtel and Wiesbaden. He graduated from the University of Michigan (graduated in 1890). There he was an instructor for French from 1892 to 1895. From 1895 to 1898 he studied in Paris, Florence, Rome, Madrid and Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1897. At the University of Michigan he was assistant professor from 1899. In 1901 he went to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland , first as an associate professor, from 1905 to 1940 as a full professor of Romance philology.
Benjamin Parsons Bourland was the brother of the romanist Caroline Brown Bourland .

plant

(Ed.) Tirso de Molina, Don Gil de las calzas verdes , New York 1901, 1926
(Ed.) Alarcón, El sombrero de tres picos, historia verdadera de un sucedido que anda en romances escrita ahora tal y como pasó , New York 1907
(Ed.) The rimed chronicle of the cid (el cantar de Rodrigo), Paris 1911 ( Revue Hispanique 24, no.66 )
(Translator) Cyrano de Bergerac, Satyrical characters and handsome descriptions in letters , Cambridge 1914

literature

James McKeen Cattell: Bourland, Prof. Benjamin P (arsons), Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in: Leaders in education. A biographical directory , New York 1932

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personal data
SURNAME	Bourland, Benjamin Parsons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Peoria (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1943