Charles Carroll Marden

Charles Carroll Marden (born December 21, 1867 in Baltimore , Maryland , † May 11, 1932 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American Romanist , Hispanic and Medievalist .

Life

Marden studied at Johns Hopkins University with Aaron Marshall Elliott . He received his doctorate in 1894 with the work The Phonology of the Spanish dialect of Mexico City (Baltimore 1896; Spanish in: Biblioteca de Dialectología hispanoamericana 4, edited by Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Buenos Aires 1938, pp. 87-187) and taught until 1916 from Johns Hopkins University, from 1905 as the first professor of Spanish in the United States. Then he was appointed to the newly established Emery L. Ford Chair of Spanish at Princeton University . There Frederick Courtney Tarr was his successor. Marden left behind an important collection of old Spanish texts.

Marden was a corresponding member of the Real Academia Española from 1907 and a knight in the Orden de Isabel la Católica from 1922 . He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1932 .

Works

• (Ed.) Poema de Fernan Gonçalez, Baltimore 1904
• (Ed.) Libro de Apolonio. An old spanish poem, 2 vols., Princeton, NJ 1917-1922
• (with Frederick Courtney Tarr) A first Spanish grammar, Boston 1926
• (Ed.) Cuatro poemas de Gonzalo de Berceo. Milagros de la Iglesia robada y de Teófilo, y Vidas de Santa Oria y de San Millán, Madrid 1928
• (Ed.) Berceo, Veintitrés milagros, Madrid 1929

literature

• Frederick Courtney Tarr, [Obituary] in: Hispanic Review 1, 1933, pp. 70-72
• [Obituary] in: PMLA 47, 1932, pp. 609-612
• Frederick Courtney Tarr, A bibliography of the publications of Charles Carroll Marden, in: Modern Language Notes 47, 1932, pp. VII-XI

Web links

• Literature by and about Charles Carroll Marden in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Charles Carroll Marden Collection of Spanish Documents from Princeton University Library