Edward Kennard Rand

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Edward Kennard Rand (born December 20, 1871 in South Boston , Massachusetts , † October 28, 1945 in Cambridge ) was an American classical philologist who taught at Harvard University from 1901 to 1942 . He dealt with Latin literature from ancient times to the early modern period .

Life

Edward Kennard Rand, was the son of clergy Edward Augustus Rand and Mary Frances, née Abbott. After his high school graduation in Watertown, Massachusetts, he began his studies at Harvard University ( Bachelor 1894), put it at Harvard Divinity School (1894-1895), at the University of Chicago (1895-1897) and on the Episcopal Theological School (1897–1898) and finally graduated from the University of Munich in Germany. Here he was at 1900 Ludwig Traube with a thesis on the late antique philosophers and theologians Boëthius his doctorate , which was printed 1,901th

After his return to the USA, Rand taught Latin literature and language at Harvard University, initially as an instructor , from 1905 as an assistant professor , and from 1909 as a full professor . From 1931 until his retirement (1942) he was Pope Professor of Latin .

Rand was one of the first philologists in the United States to represent the Latin literature of the Middle Ages in teaching and research. He was particularly interested in the interfaces between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages . His standard work Founders of the Middle Ages (1928) emerged from a series of lectures. He also devoted numerous studies to the scriptorium of Tours . In addition, he also took into account the afterlife of ancient authors in various works.

Rand was recognized nationwide as a researcher. In 1913 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was appointed Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1919/1920 and was a member of the American Philological Association (President 1922/1923) and the Classical Association of New England (President 1934/1935). He was also a founding member and the first President of the Medieval Academy of America (1925). In 1933 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Since 1937 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • The tract de fide catholica attributed to Boethius . Leipzig 1901
  • John Scotus . Munich 1906
  • with EH Wilkins and HF White: Dantis Alagherii operum latinorum concordantiae . Oxford 1912
  • Ovid and his influence . Boston 1925 (Our Debt to Greece and Rome)
  • Founders of the Middle Ages . Cambridge 1928 ( Lowell Institute Lectures ). Reprinted in New York 1957
  • Studies in the Script of Tours . Two volumes, Cambridge 1929–1934
  • In Quest of Virgil's Birthplace . Cambridge 1930
  • A Walk to Horace's Form . Boston / New York 1930
  • The Magical Art of Virgil . Boston 1931. Reprinted by Hamden, Connecticut 1966
  • with LW Jones: The Earliest Book of Tours . Cambridge 1934
  • Les esprits sovverains: dans la littérature romaine . Paris 1936
  • The Ancient Classics and the New Humanism . New York 1938
  • The Building of Eternal Rome . Boston 1943
  • Cicero in the Courtroom of St. Thomas Aquinas . Milwaukee 1946
  • with others: Servianorum in Vergilii carmina commentariorum editionis Harvardianae Volume II . Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1946

literature

  • Joseph Berrigan: Rand, Edward Kennard . In: Ward W. Briggs (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. 1994, ISBN 0-313-24560-6 , pp. 515-517.
  • Harvard University. Class of 1894. Report

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Edward Kennard Rand. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rand, Edward Kennard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rand, Edward K .; Rand, EK
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist and Middle Latin
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH South Boston
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1945
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts