Hayward Keniston

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Hayward Keniston (born July 5, 1883 in Somerville (Massachusetts) , † August 10, 1970 in Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) ) was an American Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Ralph Hayward Keniston studied at Harvard University and received his doctorate there (after various teaching assignments since 1904) in 1911 with the work Garcilaso de la Vega. A critical edition of his works, together with a life of the poet (published separately ud T. Garcilaso de la Vega. A critical study of his life and works , New York 1922 and (ed.) Garcilaso de la Vega, Works. A critical text with a bibliography , New York 1925).

After a two-year stay in Europe, he began his university teaching career in 1914 as Assistant Professor of Romance Languages ​​at Cornell University . In 1919 he became a professor and in 1923 Dean of the Graduate School. In 1925 he moved to the University of Chicago . In 1932 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1944 to the American Philosophical Society . From 1940 to 1953 he was the successor to Hugo Paul Thieme Professor at the University of Michigan , from 1945 Dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the last year as Domingo Faustino Sarmiento University Professor of Romance Languages.

After his retirement he taught at Duke University in Durham (North Carolina) and until 1963 as a Mellon Professor at the University of Pittsburgh .

Keniston was President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1948.

Other works

Monographs

  • The Dante tradition in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in: Thirty-first annual report of the Dante society (Cambridge, Mass.) 1912, Boston 1915, pp. 1-92 (Dante price).
  • List of works for the study of Hispanic-American history , Oxford 1920
  • A basic list of Spanish words and idioms , Chicago 1933
  • (with Ferdinand Schevill and Arthur Pearson Scott) Introductory general course in the humanities. Syllabus , New York 1937
  • Spanish syntax list. A statistical study of grammatical usage in contemporary Spanish prose on the basis of range and frequency , New York 1937
  • The Syntax of Castilian Prose. The Sixteenth Century , Chicago 1937, Ann Arbor 1980
  • Spanish idiom list. Selected on the basis of range and frequency of occurrence , New York 1939
  • Reading Spanish. A basic reader , New York 1940
  • Learning Spanish. The minimum essentials of pronunciation, vocabulary, idiom, and syntax , New York 1940; (with Gordon W. Harrison), New York 1954
  • A standard list of Spanish words and idioms , Boston / New York 1941
  • A bibliographical guide to materials on American Spanish , Cambridge, Mass 1941
  • (with Ralph Steele Boggs , Lloyd Kasten and HB Richardson) Tentative dictionary of medieval Spanish , Chapel Hill 1946, Ann Arbor 1981
  • Francisco de los Cobos. Secretary of the emperor Charles V , Pittsburgh 1958 (Spanish Madrid 1980)
  • Graduate study and research in the arts and sciences at the University of Philadelphia , Philadelphia 1959

Editor and translator activity

  • (Ed.) Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, La Barraca. Novella , New York 1910; (with Lawrence B. Kiddle) New York 1960
  • (Ed.) Juan Boscán, Las Treinta , New York 1911
  • (Ed.) Jorge Isaacs, María (novela americana) , Boston 1918
  • (Translator) Vicente Blasco Ibañez, Woman triumphant (La maja desnuda) , New York 1920
  • (Ed.) Fuero de Guadalajara (1219), Paris / Princeton 1924
  • (Ed.) Don Alonso Enríquez de Guzmán, Libro de la vida y costumbres , Madrid 1960
  • (Ed.) Sancho Cota, Memorias , Cambridge, Mass. 1964

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: R. Hayward Keniston. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Keniston, Hayward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keniston, Ralph Hayward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Somerville, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1970
Place of death Yarmouth (Nova Scotia)