Horatio Elwin Smith

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Horatio Elwin Smith (born May 8, 1886 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , † 1946 ) was an American Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Smith graduated from Amherst College (1908) and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University on The literary criticism of Pierre Bayle , Albany 1912, New York 1971 (thanking Aaron Marshall Elliott , Edward Cooke Armstrong , Phillip Ogden, and William A. . Nitze ). He taught at Yale University for six years , then at Amherst College. He became a professor at Brown University , where he was director of the Romance Department from 1925 to 1931. Then he went to Columbia University . There he was editor of the magazine Romanic Review .

Smith was a Knight of the Legion of Honor . In 1932 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Other works

  • (with Raymond Thompson Hill) Advanced French composition, New York 1916, 1934
  • Masters of French literature [Molière, Racine, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, Balzac], New York / Chicago 1937, Freeport 1969
  • Sainte-Beuve. Montaigne. Human nature, New York 1946
  • (Ed.) Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, New York 1947, 1963, 1971 (ud T. A Dictionary of Modern European Literature, London 1947)

literature

  • James McKeen Cattell, Leaders in Education. A biographical directory, Lancaster, Pa. 1932-1941, sv Smith, Prof. Horatio E (lwin): Brown University, Providence, RI

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personal data
SURNAME Smith, Horatio Elwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Horatio E .; Smith, Horatio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance studies and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH 1946