Henry Arthur Sanders

Henry Arthur Sanders (born October 22, 1868 in Livermore , Maine , † November 16, 1956 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an American classical philologist and papyrologist who worked from 1899 to 1939 at the University of Michigan . He stood out primarily through his studies of Roman historiography, ancient books and Egyptian papyri of the Old and New Testaments .

Life

Henry Arthur Sanders attended secondary schools in Farmington (1883-1886) and Waterville ( Coburn Classical Institute , 1886/87) and studied from 1887 Classical Philology and History at the University of Michigan , to which he remained lifelong. He followed up on his bachelor's degree with graduate studies, which he completed with a master’s degree in 1894 . At the same time he held from 1893 to 1895 as a lecturer in Latin courses at the University of Michigan. A scholarship enabled him to study extensively in Europe from 1895 to 1897. He studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin (1895-1896) and was preparing a dissertation, which he in 1897 at the University of Munich Dr. phil. received his doctorate .

After returning to the USA, Sanders initially taught Latin at the University of Minnesota for two years . In 1899 he returned as a lecturer at the University of Michigan, where he spent his entire subsequent career. In 1902 he was appointed Assistant Professor, in 1908 as Junior Professor of Latin and in 1911 as Professor of Latin. In 1915 he was given a year's leave to go to the American Academy in Rome as deputy director . After the death of his colleague Francis W. Kelsey , he headed the Department of Latin at the University of Michigan in 1927/28. Shortly thereafter he was given another leave, this time for three years, during which he was Professor-in-Charge at the American Academy in Rome. In 1931 he returned to the University of Michigan, where in 1932 he became chairman of the newly established Department of Speech and General Linguistics. In 1939 he retired when he reached the age limit, but continued to do research. In 1940 he received an honorary doctorate (L. H. D.) from Colby College .

Sanders' scientific work had different focuses. Based on source studies on the Roman historian Livy and his followers in the imperial era , he came up with the edition of papyrus fragments during his teaching time in Michigan. As early as 1904 and 1905 he published essays on the recently discovered Livy epitome from Oxyrhynchos . In the following, he dealt intensively with the biblical papyri of the Freer Gallery of Art , which he carefully edited and commented on. Sanders also endeavored to expand the University of Michigan's papyrus collection, and in 1947, together with his colleague James Eugene Dunlap, compiled a catalog of the collection's Latin papyri.

Sanders was an elected member of many scientific societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (from 1935), American Philological Association (of which he was president in 1937), the American Philosophical Society , the American Oriental Society , the Society of Biblical Literature , the Classical Association of the Middle West and South , the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Medieval Academy of America .

Fonts (selection)

• The source contamination in the 21st and 22nd book of Livy . Berlin 1897 (dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich)
• The Old Testament Manuscripts in the Freer Collection . New York 1910
• The Washington Manuscript of Deuteronomy and Joshua . New York 1910
• The Washington Manuscript of the Four Gospels . New York 1912
• The Washington Manuscript of the Psalms . New York 1917
• The Washington Manuscript of the Epistles of Paul . New York 1918
• The New Manuscripts in the Freer Collection . New York / London 1918
• with Carl Schmidt : The Minor Prophets in the Freer Collection and the Berlin Fragment of Genesis . New York / London 1927
• with James Eugene Dunlap: Latin Papyri in the University of Michigan Collection . Ann Arbor / London 1947 ( Michigan Papyri 7)

Editing

• Roman Historical Sources and Institutions . New York 1904
• Roman History and Mythology . New York 1910
• Francis W. Kelsey: Latin and Greek in American Education. With Symposia on the Value of Humanistic Studies . 2nd edition, New York 1927

literature

• Harley Harris Bartlett: Henry Arthur Sanders . In: American Philosophical Society. Yearbook . 1958, pp. 143-155
• Ward W. Briggs : Sanders, Henry Arthur . In: Ward W. Briggs: Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists , Westport, CT / London: Greenwood Press 1994, ISBN 978-0-313245-60-2 . Pp. 558-560.
• Johannes Madley:  Sanders, Henry Arthur. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1312-1313.

Web links

• Entry on Henry Arthur Sanders in the Database of Classical Scholars, written by Ward W. Briggs, Jr.
• Henry Arthur Sanders in the database of Find a Grave (English)