Elijah Clarence Hills

Elijah Clarence Hills (born July 2, 1867 in Arlington , Illinois , † April 21, 1932 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Hills grew up mainly in Florida and came into contact with Spanish early on. He studied at Cornell University (graduating in 1892) and from 1893 to 1894 in Paris . He taught from 1896 at Rollins College in Florida, from 1902 to 1916 at Colorado College (where he had moved for health reasons). In 1906 he received his doctorate at the University of Colorado with the work New-Mexican Spanish (in: PMLA 21, 1906, pp. 706-753). In 1918 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1918 to 1922 he taught at Indiana University Bloomington , from 1922 at the University of California, Berkeley as a professor first for Spanish, from 1924 for Romance languages.

Hills was Commander of the Order de Isabel la Católica .

(Ed.) Bardos cubanos. Antología de las mejores poesías líricas de Heredia. "Pláeido." Avellaneda, Milanés, Mendive, I uaces, y Zenea, Boston 1901
(with Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford ) A Spanish grammar , Boston 1904, 1907,1915, 1928
(Ed.) Spanish tales for beginners , New York 1909, 1919, 1924
(Ed. With Louise Reinhardt) Spanish short stories , Boston 1910
(Ed. With Sylvanus Griswold Morley ) Las mejores poesias líricas de la lengua castellana , New York 1910
(Ed. With Sylvanus Griswold Morley) Modern Spanish lyrics , New York 1913
(with Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford and Guillermo Rivera) First Spanish Course , Boston 1917, 1941, 1943
(Ed. With Louise Reinhardt) Enrique Pérez Escrich, Fortuna ; Miguel Carrión and Vital Aza, Zaragüeta , Boston 1920 (individually 1922 and 1924)
(Ed. With Juan Cano) Cuentos y leyendas , Boston 1922
(with Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford and J. de Siqueira Coutinho) A Portuguese grammar , Boston / New York 1925, 1944
(with Mathurin Marius Dondo) Contes dramatiques , Boston 1927
(Ed. With Richard Thayer Holbrook ) French short stories , Boston 1930, 1945
(Ed. With Mathurin Marius Dondo) La France. Son histoire, sa civilization. Cours élémentaire , Boston / New York 1931,1940, 1949
(with Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford and Guillermo Rivera) Letter Spanish grammar for colleges , Boston / New York 1938, 1949

Elijah Clarence Hills, Hispanic Studies , The American association of teachers of Spanish 1929 (with list of publications)
Sylvanus Griswold Morley , [obituary] in: Hispania 15, 1932, pp. 316-318
Rudolph Schevill , [Obituary] in: Hispanic Review 1, 1933, pp. 72-73

Literature by and about Elijah Clarence Hills in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

personal data
SURNAME	Hills, Elijah Clarence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hills, Elijah C .; Hills, EC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 2, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH	Arlington , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH	April 21, 1932
Place of death	Los Angeles (California)