Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

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Elizabeth Hazelton Haight (born February 11, 1872 in Auburn , New York , † November 15, 1964 in Beacon , New York) was an American classical philologist and professor who worked at Vassar College from 1902 to 1942 . She has published numerous monographs on ancient literature and the history of Vassar College.

Life

Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, the daughter of John W. Haight and Helen Meeker Haight, studied Classical Philology at Vassar College , where she obtained a Bachelor's degree in 1894 and a Master's degree in 1899 . Even during her graduate studies, she taught at various schools for women: from 1894 to 1895 at Rye Seminary, from 1895 to 1900 at the Emma Willard School . After a year at the Packer Collegiate Institute (1901), she went to Vassar College as an Associate Professor of Latin in 1902, where she spent her entire subsequent career and was later appointed full professor. In 1909 she was at Cornell University with a study of the seain Greek seal to Ph. D. Ph.D. .

At Vassar College, Haight was chairman of the Department of Classical Philology from 1923 to 1942. One of her lasting merits is the establishment of the Vassar Classical Museum , which was given appropriate rooms of its own on her initiative in 1937. In the 1930s Haight worked with other colleagues to ensure that Vassar College accepted more guest lecturers and visiting researchers. She was also a member and 1934 president of the American Philological Association . She was the second woman in this position after Abby Leach . Haight interrupted her lifelong work at Vassar College for a few short trips abroad to the Mediterranean countries, namely to Italy , Greece , Algeria and Tunisia . As a hobby photographer on these trips, she took several pictures as early as the 1920s, some of which she published independently ( Italy Old and New . New York 1922), and some in edited volumes ( This Is Greece . New York 1941).

Haight published numerous monographs and essays during her long life. Her first books concerned the history of Vassar College, in particular the biographies and work of the founder Matthew Vassar (1792–1868) and the long-time rector James Monroe Taylor (1848–1916). In the field of classical philology, Haight dealt with various epochs and genres of ancient literature. She published books on Horace (1925), Apuleius (1927) and the Roman Elegians (1932) and finally several monographs on the ancient novel and fiction in Latin literature in general. At the age of 83, she published an English translation of the Alexander novel by Pseudo-Callisthenes in 1955 .

Fonts (selection)

  • with James M. Taylor: Vassar . New York 1915
  • The Autobiography and Letters of Matthew Vassar . New York 1916
  • Life and Letters of James M. Taylor . New York 1919
  • Italy Old and New . New York 1922
  • Horace and His Art of Enjoyment . New York 1925
  • Apuleius and His Influence . New York 1927. Reprinted 1963
  • Romance in the Latin Elegiac Poets . New York 1932
  • Essays on Ancient Fiction . New York 1936. Reprinted by Freeport (New York) 1966
  • The Roman Use of Anecdotes in Cicero, Livy and the Satirists . New York 1940
  • Essays on the Greek Romances . New York 1943. Reprinted in Port Washington (New York) 1965
  • More Essays on the Greek Romances . New York 1945
  • The Symbolism of the House Door in Classical Poetry . New York 1950
  • Aspects of Symbolism in the Latin Anthology and in Classical and Renaissance Art . New York 1952
  • Pseudo-Callisthenes, Life of Alexander . New York 1955

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SURNAME Haight, Elizabeth Hazelton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Auburn , New York
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1964
Place of death Beacon , New York