Henry Carrington Lancaster

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Henry Carrington Lancaster (born November 10, 1882 in Richmond , † January 29, 1954 in Baltimore ) was an American Romance philologist and literary historian.

life and work

Lancaster graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville with a master’s degree in 1903 and received a PhD in Romance Languages ​​from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1907 . He taught first at Amherst College , from 1919 (as the successor to Edward Cooke Armstrong ) for many years at Johns Hopkins University, where he published in the Johns Hopkins University Press and edited the Modern Language Notes . He was an honorary doctor of the Universities of Algiers (1944) and Paris Sorbonne (1946).

Lancaster has presented the history of French theater from 1552 to 1792 on more than 5000 pages. For his work he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1939 .

Lancaster was married to Helen Converse Clark, daughter of economist John Bates Clark , since 1913 .

Works (selection)

  • The French tragi comedy. Its origin and development from 1552 to 1628, Baltimore 1907 (PhD Diss.), 1966
  • A history of French dramatic literature in the seventeenth century, 9 volumes, Baltimore 1929–1942, New York 1966
  1. The pre-classical period: 1610–1634, 2 volumes, 1929, 785 pages
  2. The period of Corneille: 1635-1651, 2 volumes, 1932, 804 pages
  3. The period of Molière: 1652–1672, 2 volumes, 1936, 896 pages
  4. The period of Racine: 1673-1700, 2 volumes, 1940, 984 pages
  5. Recapitulation: 1610-1700, 1942, 235 pages
  • Sunset. A history of Parisian drama in the last years of Louis XIV, 1701–1715, Baltimore 1945, Westport 1976, 365 pages (with Additions and Corrections to “A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seventeenth Century.”)
  • French Tragedy in the Time of Louis XV and Voltaire 1715–1774, 2 volumes, Baltimore 1950, 662 pages
  • French Tragedy in the Reign of Louis XVI and the Early Years of the French Revolution, 1774-1792, Baltimore 1953, 181 pages

literature

  • Adventures of a literary historian. A collection of his writings presented to H. Carrington Lancaster by his former students and other friends in anticipation of his sixth birthday, November 10, 1942. Foreword by CI Silin. Introduction by Louis Cons, Baltimore 1942, Freeport 1968 (with list of publications)
  • GR Havens in: Modern Language Notes 69, 1954, p. 541 ff

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personal data
SURNAME Lancaster, Henry Carrington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lancaster, H. Carrington; Lancaster, Henry C .; Lancaster, HC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American romance scholar and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond, Virginia
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1954
Place of death Baltimore