Ernest Hatch Wilkins

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Ernest Hatch Wilkins (born September 14, 1880 in Newton (Massachusetts) , † January 2, 1966 in Newton (Massachusetts)) was an American Romanist and Italianist.

life and work

Wilkins graduated from Amherst College in 1903. In 1910 he received his doctorate from Harvard University with the thesis The chronology of the youth of Boccaccio .

Wilkins taught from 1900 to 1904 at Amherst College, 1905 at Johns Hopkins University , from 1906 to 1912 at Harvard University. From 1912 to 1926 he was first associate professor at the University of Chicago , then professor of Romance studies (from 1923 also dean). From 1927 to 1946 he was president of Oberlin College . From 1947 to 1950 he taught as a visiting professor at Harvard University.

Wilkins was president of the Modern Language Association and the Dante Society of America. He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1930) and, since 1952, a corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca .

Wilkins was an honorary citizen of the Arquà Petrarca parish .

Works

  • (with Edward Kennard Rand) Dantis Alagherii Operum latinorum concordantiae, Oxonii 1912, New York 1970
  • (with William A. Nitze ) The French verb. Its forms and tense uses, Chicago 1914
  • (with Charles Hall Grandgent) Italian grammar, Boston 1915
  • First Italian book, Chicago 1920
  • (with Antonio Marinoni) L'Italia, Chicago 1920
  • Dante. Poet and apostle, Chicago (Illinois) 1921
  • Modern discussions of the dates of Petrarch's prose letters, Chicago 1929
  • Living in crisis, Boston 1937
  • Toward unity, Oberlin 1946
  • The Making of the "Canzoniere" and other Petrarchan studies, Rome 1951
  • A History of Italian literature, Cambridge, Mass. 1954, 1974
  • Studies in the life and works of Petrarch, Cambridge, Mass. 1955
  • (Ed. And translator) Petrarch at Vaucluse. Letters in verse and prose, Chicago 1958
  • Petrarch's eight years in Milan, Cambridge, Mass. 1958
  • The invention of the sonnet and other studies in Italian literature, Rome 1959
  • Petrarch's later years, Cambridge, Mass. 1959
  • Petrarch's correspondence, Padua 1960 (with list of writings relating to Petrarch)
  • Life of Petrarch, Chicago 1963 (Italian: Milan 1964, 1970, 1980, 1985, 1987, 1990, 2003)
  • (with Thomas Goddard Bergin ) A concordance to the Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, Cambridge, Mass. 1965
  • Studies on Petrarch and Boccaccio, ed. by Aldo S. Bernardo, Padua 1978

literature

  • Vincenzo Cioffari: In Memoriam: Ernest Hatch Wilkins (1880-1966), in: Italica 43, 1966, pp. 97-99 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership catalog of the Crusca
personal data
SURNAME Wilkins, Ernest Hatch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilkins, Ernest H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Newton (Massachusetts)
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1966
Place of death Newton (Massachusetts)