Charles Pomeroy Parker
Charles Pomeroy Parker (born April 12, 1852 in Boston , † December 2, 1916 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American classical philologist .
Life
Charles Pomeroy Parker was one of the two sons of Fanny Cushing (maiden name, first marriage Fanny Cushing Stone) and the Boston attorney Henry Melville Parker, a graduate of Harvard Law School. He was named for his maternal uncle, Charles Pomeroy Stone , a United States Army officer with the rank of general. The second son, Edward Melville Parker, rose to be bishop of the Anglican Diocese of New Hampshire .
Parker attended St. Paul's School in Concord (New Hampshire) and studied from October 16, 1872 Classics at Trinity College and at Balliol College of Oxford University . He completed his studies in 1876 with a bachelor's degree (B.A.) and a first in the subject of Literae Humaniores . He then prepared for ministry in the Episcopal Church of the United States of America . In 1878 he was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of New Hampshire and received a teaching post at St. Paul's School. In 1883 he moved to Harvard University , where he worked as an instructor and tutor in classics. On September 1, 1897 he was appointed Assistant Professor in Greek and Latin and in 1902 Professor in Classics . He died on December 2, 1916 of a lung infection .
Parker was the first Harvard professor to study at Oxford. He brought the long-standing academic tradition of the English university to bear at the relatively young American university: for example, he adopted the principle of using advanced students as tutors for the beginners. Parker was equally concerned with Greek and Latin literature and language and established the tradition that later prevailed at Harvard of learning both languages in close conjunction in order to acquire the most comprehensive knowledge of antiquity possible. At the time, graduate studies at Harvard were not yet established; However, Parker gave a wide range of courses for undergraduate studies, including a regular lecture on the methodology and didactics of ancient language teaching in secondary schools ( Methods and Equipment of a Teacher of Classics in Secondary Schools ).
Parker belonged to several academic societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1910), the American Philological Association , the Archeological Institute of America , the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, and the Classical Association of New England .
His research interests included Greek philosophy and Latin stylistics. Together with Henry Preble, he published the Handbook of Latin Writing in 1890 , a textbook on Latin grammar and style. He also wrote essays and reviews for various magazines and worked with John Burnet , the issue of Plato - Scholien that his colleague Frederic De Forest Allen had begun. After Parker's death, the edition was completed by his student William Chase Greene .
Fonts (selection)
- with Henry Preble: Handbook of Latin Writing . Boston 1890
literature
- Joseph Foster: Alumni Oxonienses. The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 . Volume 3, Oxford 1891, p. 1066
- Harvard Alumni Bulletin . Volume 19 (1916), p. 219
- Samuel Eliot Morison: The Development of Harvard university since the inauguration of President Eliot, 1869–1929 . Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1930, p. 47
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parker, Charles Pomeroy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1916 |
| Place of death | Cambridge , Massachusetts |