Charles Hall Grandgent
Charles Hall Grandgent (born November 14, 1862 in Dorchester (Boston) , † September 11, 1939 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) was an American Romanist and Italianist.
life and work
Grandgent graduated from Harvard University in 1883. He was a high school teacher first. From 1896 to 1932 he was Professor of Romance Studies at Harvard University. From 1902 to 1911 he was secretary of the Modern Language Association , and in 1912 its president. In 1913, Grandgent was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1923, when it was founded, he became honorary president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian. Since 1929 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .
The Dante Society of America presents The Charles Hall Grandgent Award annually.
Works
- Italian grammar, Boston 1887, 1889, 1891, 1892, 1903, 1904; (with Ernest Hatch Wilkins) 1915, 1944
- Vowel measurements, Baltimore 1890 (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Supplement to vol. V. no. 2, 1890, pp. 148-174)
- (with Richard Hochdörfer) German and English sounds, Boston 1892
- A Short French Grammar, Boston 1894, 1905
- English in America, in: Die Neueren Sprachen, 1895, pp. 443–467, 520–533
- The essentials of French grammar, Boston 1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908
- Italian composition, Boston 1904
- An outline of the phonology and morphology of old provençal, Boston 1905
- An introduction to vulgar Latin, Boston 1907, New York 1962, Honolulu 2002 (Italian: Milan 1914, 1976, Spanish: Madrid 1928, 1952, 1963)
- (Ed.) Dante, La Divina Commedia, Boston 1911, 1933
- (with Raymond Weeks and James W. Bright) The NEA phonetic alphabet with a review of the Whipple experiments, Lancaster, Pa. 1912
- Dante, New York 1916, 1921 (Folcroft 1973), 1966; London 1920
- The Ladies of Dante's lyrics, Cambridge, Mass. 1917
- The Power of Dante (Eight lectures), London / Cambridge, Mass. 1920
- Old and New. Sundry papers, Cambridge, Mass. 1920
- Discourses on Dante, Cambridge, Mass. 1924, New York 1970
- Getting a laugh, and other essays, Cambridge, Mass. 1924, 1952, Freeport, NY 1971
- From Latin to Italian. An historical outline of the phonology and morphology of the Italian language, Cambridge, Mass. 1927, 1940
- Prunes and prism, with other odds and ends, Cambridge, Mass. 1928, Freeport, NJ 1971
- The new world, Cambridge, Mass. 1929
- Imitation and other essays, Cambridge, Mass. 1933
- Companion to the Divine Comedy. Commentary, ed. by Charles S. Singleton, Cambridge, Mass. 1975
- (with Ernest Hatch Wilkins and the staff of Research & Education Association) Italian, Piscataway, NJ 2002
literature
- George Luther Lincoln: A bibliography of Charles Hall Grandgent's writings, arranged chronologically, in: PMLA 47, 1932, pp. 911–914 (with picture)
- To Charles Hall Grandgent, Urbana, Ill. 1933
- Charles Hall Grandgent, in: Italica 12, 1935, pp. 176-178
- Henry Grattan Doyle: Charles Hall Grandgent. An appreciation, in: The Modern Language Journal 19, 1935, p. 615
- Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford : Charles Hall Grandgent, in: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 54, 1939, pp. 1400-1402
- James McKeen Cattell, Leaders in education, a biographical directory, New York 1932, pp. 367-368
Web links
- Literature by and about Charles Hall Grandgent in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.issawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=%7E_Charles_H._Grandgent_(1862-1939),_United_States
- http://www.aati-online.org/
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Charles H. Grandgent. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 27, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Grandgent, Charles Hall |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grandgent, Charles H. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romanist and Italianist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1862 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dorchester (Boston) |
DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1939 |
Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts |