Edward Stevens Sheldon

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Edward Stevens Sheldon (born November 21, 1851 in Waterville (Maine) , † October 16, 1925 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) was an American Romance scholar , French scholar, Italianist, Germanist, Medievalist and etymologist .

life and work

Sheldon studied at Harvard University (graduating in 1872), then in Berlin, Leipzig and Paris. He taught at Harvard from 1877, first as an instructor (for German and French), from 1884 as Assistant Professor of Romance Languages ​​and from 1894 until his retirement in 1921 as a full professor.

Sheldon founded the Department of Romance Philology at Harvard. He co-founded the American Dialect Society and was its secretary, later its president. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America (1901). He was also President of the Dante Society of Cambridge.

Under the influence of Henry Sweet , Sheldon introduced the teaching of phonetics at Harvard and arranged for a phonetic laboratory to be set up. As a specialist in the Romansh roots of English, he obtained the etymological information (among other collaborations) in Webster's International Dictionary . His university teaching ended with the medieval lectures "Old French Literature", "History of French Literature prior to the Fourteenth Century" and "French Literature in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries".

Sheldon was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge, Massachusetts) .

Sheldon was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1904).

Works

  • A Short German grammar for high schools and colleges , Boston 1879, 1908
  • (with Alain Campbell White) Concordanza delle opere italiane in prosa e del Canzoniere di Dante Alighieri , Oxford 1905

literature

  • Philip Babcock Gove, The International Scientific Vocabulary in Webster's Third, in: Journal of English Linguistics 2, 1968, pp. 1-10

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personal data
SURNAME Sheldon, Edward Stevens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sheldon, IT
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romanist, Frenchist, Italianist, Germanist, Medievalist and etymologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterville (Maine)
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1925
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts