Francis Peabody Magoun

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Francis Peabody Magoun, 1918

Francis Peabody Magoun (born January 6, 1895 in New York City , † June 5, 1979 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American professor of literature . He published on the Middle Ages and the history of football and translated some important texts.

Life

Magoun was born into a wealthy family in New York City. His parents were Francis Peabody Magoun (1865–1928) and Jeanne C. Bartholow (1870–1957). Although he came from the United States, he served in the British Air Force ( Royal Flying Corps , later Royal Air Force ) as a lieutenant during World War I. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in June 1918 .

After returning to the United States in 1919, he taught comparative literature at Harvard University ; during this time he received his PhD in philology with a dissertation in 1923. In 1931 Magoun was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 1937 he became a professor of general and comparative literature and in 1951 professor of English . He worked until 1961.

Publications

  • History of football from the beginnings to 1871 . 1938, ISBN 0-384-35060-7 .
  • Old-English anthology: translations of Old-English prose and verse . 1950.
  • Walter of Aquitaine; materials for the study of his legend . 1950.
  • Graded Finnish reader . 1957.
  • Chaucer gazetteer . 1961.
  • Kalevala or Poems of the Kaleva District . 1963, ISBN 0-674-50000-8 .
  • The Old Kalevala and Certain Antecedents . 1969, ISBN 0-674-63235-4 .

Translations

  • Francis B. Gummere: Founders of England . 1930.
  • Milton Haight Turk: Anglo-Saxon reader . 1930, ISBN 0-674-03650-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harvard University Register. Retrieved February 14, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Magoun, Francis Peabody
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American university professor, professor of literature
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1979
Place of death Cambridge , Massachusetts