Herbert Baldwin Foster

Herbert Baldwin Foster (born November 12, 1874 in Andover, Massachusetts , † June 5, 1906 in Pittsburgh ) was an American classical philologist .

Life

Herbert Baldwin Foster studied Classical Philology at Harvard University from 1892 , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1895 . He then taught at the school for a short time. From 1897 he continued his studies at Johns Hopkins University , where he received his doctorate in 1900 . In the same year he was hired as an Acting Professor of Greek at St. Stephen's College , Annandale-on-Hudson . He represented Professor John Charles Robertson there . In 1901 he moved to the University of South Dakota as Professor of Greek . From 1904 to 1905 he represented the Professor of Greek at Lehigh University .

In 1905 Foster was hired as Professor of Greek and Latin at Central College, Missouri . In the same year he was a founding member of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South . He died of typhus in a Pittsburgh hospital the next year at the age of 31 .

Herbert Baldwin Foster wrote the first complete translation of Cassius Dio's history into English. It appeared in four volumes under the title Dio's Rome (1905-1906). After his death, Earnest took Cary Foster's translation as a template for his bilingual edition in the Loeb Classical Library (nine volumes, 1914–1927). The version by Cary has since been the most widely used in the English-speaking world.

literature

• South Dakota alumnus . Volume 3 (1907), p. 70
• The Johns Hopkins University circular . Volume 28 (1909), p. 477