James Pyle Wickersham Crawford

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James Pyle Wickersham Crawford (born February 19, 1882 in Lancaster (Pennsylvania) , † September 22, 1939 in Lancaster (Pennsylvania)) was an American Romanist and Hispanist .

life and work

Crawford studied with Hugo Albert Rennert at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, as well as in Grenoble, Madrid and Freiburg. He received his doctorate in 1906 with the work The life and works of Christóbal Suárez de Figueroa (Philadelphia 1907; Spanish: Valladolid 1911) and became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1914.

From 1920 to 1924 Crawford was editor of the magazine Modern Language Journal . He was the founder and first editor of Hispanic Review (1933).

Since 1929 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . In 1938 Crawford was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Other works

  • Spanish composition, New York 1910
  • (Ed.) Comedia á lo pastoril para la noche de navidad. A spanish religious play of the sixteenth century, New York 1911
  • The Spanish pastoral drama, Philadelphia 1915, Folcroft 1974, Norwood 1976, Philadelphia 1977
  • A first book in Spanish, New York 1918
  • Spanish drama before Lope de Vega, Philadelphia 1922, 1937, 1968, Westport 1975
  • Temas españoles, New York 1922
  • (Eds.) Benito Pérez Galdós, Marianela, Boston 1926
  • (Ed.) Los Abencerrajes, New York 1928
  • (Ed.) Gil Blas de Santillana, New York 1929
  • Un viaje por España. Intermediate Spanish composition and grammar review, New York 1931
  • (Ed.) El sombrero de tres picos, New York 1935

literature

  • Miguel Romera-Navarro , [Obituary] in: Hispanic Review 8, 1940, pp. 1–8 (with list of publications)
  • Camille Pitollet, [Obituary] in: Bulletin Hispanique 42, 1940, pp. 68-70
  • Otis H. Green, Hispanic Studies at Penn from Rennert to Sebold, in: Hispanic Review 40, 1972, pp. 1-18

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: James Pyle Wickersham Crawford. American Philosophical Society, accessed June 30, 2018 .
  2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Crawford, James Pyle Wickersham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crawford, JP Wickersham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lancaster, Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1939
Place of death Lancaster, Pennsylvania