Frederick Augustus Grant Cowper
Frederick Augustus Grant Cowper (born March 3, 1883 in Island Pond , Vermont , † January 24, 1978 in Durham , North Carolina ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist .
life and work
Cowper studied at Trinity College (Connecticut) (graduation 1911), also in Strasbourg and Geneva and at the University of Chicago , where he received his doctorate in 1920 with the work The Sources, Date and Style of Ille et Galeron, by Gautier d'Arras ( 1922). From 1918 to 1952 he taught at Duke University (before 1924: Trinity College , Durham, NC) as Professor of Romance Philology. Cowper was an honorary doctor of Trinity College, where he studied (1956). He was married to the social activist Mary Octavine Thompson Cowper (1881–1968).
Other works
- (Ed.) Italian folk tales and folk songs , Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1923.
- (Ed. With John Thomas Lister) Vicente Blasco Ibáñez , Los muertos mandan (Novela), New York / London, Harper & Brothers, 1934.
- (Eds.) Gautier d'Arras, Ille et Galeron , Paris, Picard, 1956.
literature
- Robert Franklin Durden, The Launching of Duke University 1924-1949 , Duke University Press, 1993, p. 145.
Web links
- Literature by and about Frederick Augustus Grant Cowper in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uacowperfred/ (Biographical Note, English)
- http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6tf227g (Biographical note on Cowper's wife, English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cowper, Frederick Augustus Grant |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cowper, FAG |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romanist and Medievalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Island Pond , Vermont |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1978 |
| Place of death | Durham, North Carolina |