Edward Cooke Armstrong

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Edward Cooke Armstrong (born August 21, 1871 in Winchester , Virginia , † March 5, 1944 , Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist.

life and work

Armstrong received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1897 with the work Le chevalier à l'Épée. An old French poem (Baltimore 1900). He was a student of Aaron Marshall Elliott and Gaston Paris . He taught from 1897 at Johns Hopkins University, from 1910 as the successor to his teacher Elliott. In 1917 he moved to Princeton University . His successor in Baltimore was Henry Carrington Lancaster . Armstrong published the "Elliott Monographs in the Romance Languages ​​and Literatures" from 1914, which appeared until 1976. In Princeton, the "Edward C. Armstrong Monographs" published by the Department of French and Italy were named after him.

In 1931 Armstrong was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • Syntax of the French verb, New York 1909, 1915
  • The french metrical versions of Barlaam and Josaphat with especial reference to the termination in Gui de Cambrai, Princeton 1922, New York 1965
  • The authorship of the Vengement Alixandre and the Venjance Alixandre, Princeton 1926, New York 1965
  • (Ed. With Alfred Foulet et al.) The Medieval French "Roman d'Alexandre", 7 vols., Princeton 1937–1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Princeton Alumni Weekly, May 12, 1944, p. 24