Francis Andrew March
Francis Andrew March (born October 25, 1825 in Millbury , Massachusetts , † September 9, 1911 in Easton , Pennsylvania ) was an American philologist and lexicographer .
Life
After schooling and education at Amherst College , he studied law in New York City and received 1850 admission as a lawyer . After serving as a few years teachers worked, he became in 1857 Professor of English Language and Comparative Linguistics at Lafayette College in Easton. He taught there for almost fifty years until 1906. He was also director of the American editors of the New English Dictionary , later the Oxford English Dictionary, between 1879 and 1882 . He was also President of the Modern Language Association (MLA) from 1891 to 1893 .
March can be seen as the founder of the comparative Old English language . His best-known publications include the monumental work Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1870), An Anglo-Saxon Reader (1870) and Introduction to Anglo-Saxon: An Anglo-Saxon Reader, with Philological Notes, a Brief Grammar, and a vocabulary .
Works
- Francis Andrew March: Selected writings of the first professor of English , Ed. by Paul and Jane Schlueter, Easton, PA: Friends of Skillman Library, Lafayette College, 2005, ISBN 0-9765162-0-9
literature
- March, Francis Andrew . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 17 : Lord Chamberlain - Mecklenburg . London 1911, p. 688 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- An Address in Commemoration of Francis Andrew March, 1825-1911 . In: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA), No. 28, 1913; obituary
- CHAMBERS Biographical Dictionary . 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 1004
Individual evidence
- ^ Francis Andrew March: A comparative grammar of the Anglo-Saxon language: in which its forms are illustrated by those of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Friesic, Old Norse, and Old High-German , 1883
- ^ Francis Andrew March: Introduction to Anglo-Saxon: An Anglo-Saxon Reader, with Philological Notes, a Brief Grammar, and a Vocabulary , 2009, ISBN 1-113-09641-1
- ↑ Books by Francis Andrew March (Library Thing)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | March, Francis Andrew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American philologist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Millbury , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1911 |
| Place of death | Easton , Pennsylvania |