Charles Burton Gulick

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Charles Burton Gulick (born September 30, 1868 in Jersey City , New Jersey , † May 23, 1962 in White Plains , New York ) was an American classical philologist . He taught at Harvard University from 1892 to 1937 .

Life

Charles Burton Gulick, the son of the traveling salesman Horace Gulick and his wife Anna Louise Sillcocks Gulick, studied Classical Philology at Harvard University , where he obtained a Bachelor's degree (A.B.) in 1890 and a Master's degree (A.M.) in 1891 . He then went on a study trip to Germany and Greece. He spent his academic career at Harvard University. From 1892 he was an instructor in Greek there. In 1894 he became a Ph. D. doctorate . In 1899 he was appointed Assistant Professor, in 1909 Professor of Greek, and in 1925 Eliot Professor of Greek. He was also visiting professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1911/1912 , President of the Classical Association of New England in 1928/1929 and President of the American Philological Association in 1929/1930 . In 1937 he retired. Since his eyesight deteriorated, he had to give up his scientific work.

Gulick dealt with various aspects of Greek culture. He wrote two books on the private life of the Greeks and a bilingual edition of the Deipnosophists of Athenaios for the Loeb Classical Library (1927). With his considerable knowledge of the Greek language, he was able to work on the Greek grammar of his older colleague William Watson Goodwin (1930).

In 1913 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1940 to the American Philosophical Society .

Charles Burton Gulick was married to Anne Hathaway Swift (1869-1948) from 1896.

Fonts (selection)

  • De scholiis Aristophaneis quaestiones mythicae . Dissertation, Harvard 1894. Published in: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology . Volume 5 (1894), pp. 83-166
  • The Life of the Ancient Greeks . New York 1902
  • Modern Traits in Old Greek Life . New York 1927
  • Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists . 7 volumes, New York / London 1928 ( Loeb Classical Library )
Editing
  • Morris Hicky Morgan: Brief Notes on the Greek Lyric Poets . Cambridge 1903
  • William Watson Goodwin: Greek Grammar . Boston 1930

literature

  • Arthur F. Stocker: Gulick, Charles Burton . In: Ward W. Briggs (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists . Westport, CT / London: Greenwood Press 1994, ISBN 978-0-313-24560-2 , pp. 239f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Charles B. Gulick. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 17, 2018 (incorrect year of birth).
personal data
SURNAME Gulick, Charles Burton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1962
Place of death White Plains , New York