James Eugene Dunlap

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James Eugene Dunlap (born October 31, 1889 in Ripon , Wisconsin , † December 15, 1983 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an American classical philologist who worked from 1923 to 1960 at the University of Michigan .

Life

James Eugene Dunlap, the son of Augustus Eugene Dunlap and Jessie C. Cooke Frazer Dunlap, studied Latin and Greek at Ripon College ( A.B. 1910) and then taught at a high school in Lancaster, Wisconsin . In 1913 he went to the University of Michigan as a Buhl Classical Fellow , where he deepened his studies with Francis W. Kelsey and in 1914 obtained his master's degree (A.M.). From 1915 to 1919 he was an instructor in Latin at Ohio State University . From 1919 to 1920 he was an assistant professor for Francis W. Kelsey at the University of Michigan; at the same time he completed his PhD there from (1920).

From 1920 to 1923 Dunlap taught as Assistant Professor of Latin at Indiana University Bloomington and then returned to the University of Michigan, first as Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, from 1928 as Associate Professor, from 1940 as Professor. When the Departments of Greek and Latin were merged in 1946, he took over their joint leadership. Dunlap was also involved in the self-government of the university and was a member of the commission for the Kelsey Museum of Archeology . In 1951 he received an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters) from Ripon College. In 1960 he retired.

James Eugene Dunlap was married to Gertrude Florence Clark (1891–1980) from 1917. The couple had two sons, James Edward Dunlap and Robert Bruce Dunlap. Autobiographical records of the Dunlap couple are in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Arthur ER Boak : Two Studies in Later Roman and Byzantine Administration . New York 1924
  • with Henry Arthur Sanders : Latin Papyri in the University of Michigan Collection . Ann Arbor / London 1947

literature

  • James Arthur MacClellan Hanna: The House of Dunlap . Ann Arbor 1956, p. 288

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on James Eugene Dunlap on ancestry.com (accessed February 15, 2017).
  2. ↑ The Michigan Alumnus . Volume 90, No. 6 (March / April 1984), p. 34.
  3. ↑ Green Bay Press-Gazette from Green Bay, Wisconsin . May 14, 1951, p. 30 ( online )
  4. ↑ Dunlap Family Papers, 1733-1984, inventory number RL.00337 .
personal data
SURNAME Dunlap, James Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunlap, James E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Ripon, Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1983
Place of death Ann Arbor , Michigan