Harold North Fowler

HN Fowler as a student 1880

Harold North Fowler (born February 25, 1859 in Westfield , Massachusetts , † September 29, 1955 in Findlay , Ohio ) was an American classical philologist and archaeologist who was mainly active at Western Reserve University (1893-1929). He emerged as a translator of Greek and Latin authors (especially Plato ) and through studies of Greek sculpture (statues) and topography .

Life

Harold North Fowler studied at Harvard University ( A. B. 1880), at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1882/83) and at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin (1883–1885). In 1884 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In his dissertation, which appeared in print in 1885, he collected and commented on the fragments of the Stoic philosophers Panaitios of Rhodes and Hekaton of Rhodes .

After returning to the United States, Fowler taught as an Instructor of Classics at Harvard University (1885-1888), as Professor of Latin at the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter (New Hampshire) (1888-1892), as Professor of Greek at the University of Texas at Austin (1892-1893) and finally in the same capacity at the College for Women at Western Reserve University (1893-1929). From 1929 to 1932 he was a subject librarian at the Library of Congress for Classical Philology.

In addition to his teaching activities, Fowler was involved in academic associations. He was a long-time board member of the American Philological Association (President 1913), edited the American Journal of Archeology from 1906 to 1916 and kept in close contact with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens , of which he was a member of the governing body and to which he served in 1903/04 and 1924 / 25 returned as a visiting professor. The German Archaeological Institute appointed him a corresponding member in 1901.

Fowler's research spanned broad areas of ancient literature and archeology. He published study editions and translations (in the Loeb Classical Library ) on Thucydides , Plautus , Curtius Rufus , Plato and Plutarch , as well as textbooks such as the history of Greek and Roman literature (first published in 1902 and 1903) and monographs on Greek statues. Fowler took part in the excavations at Corinth and published the first volume of the excavation report together with Richard Stillwell . Fowler's findings on the course of the Diolkos , a stretch of the Isthmus of Corinth on which ships were dragged from the Corinthian to the Saronic Gulf , were particularly significant .

Fonts (selection)

• Panaetii et Hecatonis librorum fragmenta . Bonn 1885 (dissertation)
• Thucydides . Boston 1888
• Menaechmi of Plautus . Boston / New York 1889
• Q. Curti Rufi Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis libri II et IV . Boston 1891
• A History of Ancient Greek Literature . New York 1902. Revised edition 1923
• A History of Roman Literature . New York 1903. 2nd edition 1923
• with Hiram Tuell: A First Book in Latin . Boston 1904
• Plato. Vol. 1: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus . London / New York 1914 ( Loeb Classical Library )
• A History of Sculpture . New York 1916
• Plato. Vol. 7: Theaetetus, Sophist . London / New York 1921 ( Loeb Classical Library )
• Plato. Vol. 8: Statesman, Philebus . London / New York 1925 ( Loeb Classical Library )
• Plato. Vol. 4: Cratylus, Parmenides, Greater Hippias, Lesser Hippias . London / New York 1926 ( Loeb Classical Library )
• with Mary Blackford Fowler: The Picture Book of Greek Sculpture . New York 1929
• with Richard Stillwell: Corinth. Results of Excavations. Vol. 1: Introduction, Topography, Architecture . Cambridge 1932
• Plutarch's Moralia. Vol. 10 . Cambridge / London 1936 ( Loeb Classical Library )

literature

• Ward W. Briggs : Fowler, Harold North . In: Ward W. Briggs (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists . Westport, CT / London: Greenwood Press 1994, ISBN 978-0-313-24560-2 , pp. 193f.

Web links

• Entry on Harold North Fowler in the Database of Classical Scholars, written by Ward W. Briggs (English)
• Harold North Fowler in the database of Find a Grave (English)