Frederick Courtney Tarr
Frederick Courtney Tarr (born May 6, 1896 in Baltimore , † August 31, 1939 in Princeton ) was an American Romance scholar and Hispanist .
life and work
Tarr graduated from Johns Hopkins University . He received his doctorate in 1921 from Princeton University under Charles Carroll Marden with the work Prepositional complementary clauses in Spanish with special reference to the works of Pérez Galdós (Revue Hispanique 56, New York 1922). Tarr was at Princeton Assistant Professor (1922), Associate Professor (1928) and (as successor to his teacher) holder of the Emery L. Ford Chair of Spanish (1937).
Other works
- (with Charles Carroll Marden ) A first Spanish grammar, Boston 1926
- (with Augusto Centeno) A graded Spanish review grammar with composition, New York 1933, 1937, 1945, 1961; (and with Paul M. Lloyd) 1973
- (with Augusto Centeno) Shorter Spanish review grammar and composition, New York 1937; (and with Paul M. Lloyd) 1973, Englewood Cliffs 1991
literature
- Raymond S. Willis, Jr. [Obituary], in: Hispanic Review 8, 1940, pp. 67-68
- Camille Pitollet, [Obituary] in: Bulletin Hispanique 42, 1940, pp. 69-70
Web links
- Literature by and about Frederick Courtney Tarr in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tarr, Frederick Courtney |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tarr, F. Courtney |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance philologist and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1939 |
| Place of death | Princeton |