Grace Frank

Grace Frank (born June 28, 1886 in New Haven (Connecticut) , † March 22, 1978 in Baltimore ) was an American Romance and Medievalist.

life and work

Grace Edith Mayer grew up in Chicago and studied at the University of Chicago . In 1907 she made BA and married the classical philologist and ancient historian Tenney Frank (1876-1939), who taught from 1904 to 1919 at Bryn Mawr College . There she studied further and accompanied her husband on study trips through England, France, Germany (1910–1911 Göttingen and Berlin) and Italy (in 1916 Tenney Frank was visiting professor in Rome). After the United States entered the World War, she worked as a nurse in Italy. During research in the Vatican Library it was by Achille Ratti, later Pius XI. , drew attention to an old French passion play that she published in 1922.

When Tenney Frank was appointed to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1919, Grace Frank followed him to Baltimore, but in 1926 began a university teaching career at Bryn Mawr College (in Philadelphia), first as a lecturer, from 1927 as an associate professor and from 1933 to 1952 as a Non Resident Professor of French. In addition, she was Visiting Professor of Romance Philology at Johns Hopkins University from 1934 to 1936. Grace Frank was one of the founding members of the Medieval Academy of America (with the magazine Speculum ) in 1925 , whose Vice President from 1948 to 1951 and whose Fellow she was from 1950. In Baltimore, she came into contact with Leo Spitzer , who valued her.

Works

• (Translator) Hermann Sudermann, Roses, four one-act plays, New York 1909, London / New York 1912
• (Ed.) La passion du Palatinus. Mystère du XIVeme siècle, Paris 1922, 1972, présenté et traduit par Jacques Ribard, Paris 1992
• (Ed.) Le miracle de Théophile. Miracle du XIIIe siècle, Paris 1925, 1949, 1967, 1975, 1986
• (Ed.) Le livre de la passion. Poème narratif du XIVe siècle, Paris 1930
• (Ed.) La Passion d'Autun, Paris 1934
• (Ed. With Dorothy Miner) Proverbes en rimes. Text and illustrations of the fifteenth century from a French manuscript in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore 1937
• The medieval French drama, Oxford 1954, 1960, 1972

literature

• John W. Baldwin in: Speculum 54, 1979, p. 651 ff
• Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”. 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 330
• Norman W. DeWitt: Tenney Frank, in: The American Journal of Philology 60, 1939, pp. 273-287

Web links

• Literature by and about Grace Frank in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://www.jstor.org/pss/2855832