Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford

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Jeremiah Ford, 1925

Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (born July 2, 1873 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , † November 13, 1958 ) was an American Romanist , Hispanic and Lusitanist .

life and work

Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford attended Thorndike Grammar School in his hometown, the North Monastery Christian Brothers School of the Presentation Brothers in Cork, Ireland, and the South Kensington Science & Art Department in London. He has received several awards for outstanding performance as a student in the subjects of chemistry, mathematics, English and German.

Ford studied law at Harvard Law School and Romance languages at Harvard University , where he received his doctorate in 1897 with the dissertation The Old Spanish Sibilants . From 1897 to 1898 he stayed in Italy and Paris.

His career at Harvard University went as follows: From 1895 he was an instructor for French and Italian, from 1898 for French and Spanish, from 1899 for Romance languages. Ford was one of the first Catholics to be granted an academic career at Harvard University. His appointment broke the prejudice "catholica non leguntur" ( Latin : "Catholic things are not read", in the sense of "Catholic authors are second class and not worth reading"), which was still widespread among many Protestant humanities scholars at the time . From 1902 he was Associate Professor, from 1907 to 1943 Smith Professor of Roman Languages. He also taught at Radcliffe College .

family

Jeremiah Ford married Anna Winifred Fearns in 1902. They had four children.

Honors

Fonts

As an author and co-author

  • The Old Spanish Sibilants (PhD thesis), Harvard 1900, Ann Arbor 1979
  • (with Elijah Clarence Hills) A Spanish Grammar . Boston 1904 and other editions
  • (with Elijah Clarence Hills) First Spanish course . Boston 1917
  • Main Currents of Spanish Literature . New York 1919
  • (with Elijah Clarence Hills and J. de Siqueira Coutinho) A Portuguese grammar . Boston 1925
  • (with Elijah Clarence Hills and Guillermo Rivera) Letter Spanish grammar for colleges . Boston and New York 1938

As editor

  • Carlo Goldoni: Un curioso accidente. Commedia in tre atti . Boston 1899
  • Leandro Fernández de Moratín: El sí de las niñas. Comedia en tres actos y en prosa . Boston 1899
  • Don Pedro Antonio de Alarcoń: El capitan Veneno . Boston 1899
  • A Spanish anthology. A collection of lyrics from the thirteenth century down to the present time . New York 1901 and other editions
  • (with Mary Agnes Teresa Ford) The romances of chivalry in Italian verse. Selections . New York 1904
  • Old Spanish Readings . Boston 1906 and other editions
  • The romances of Italian verse . New York 1906
  • Selections from Don Quixote . Boston 1908
  • (with Elizabeth Catherine Ford) Spanish fables in verse . Boston 1918
  • Letters of John III, king of Portugal, 1521–1557. The Portuguese text . Cambridge, Mass. 1931
  • (with LG Moffatt) Letters of the court of John III, king of Portugal. The Portuguese text . Cambridge, Mass. 1933
  • Leonardo Núñez: Cronica de Dom João de Castro . Cambridge, Mass. 1936
  • Luis de Camõens: The Lusiad , translated by Richard Fanshawe. Cambridge, Mass. 1940
  • Luis de Camões: Os Lusiadas . Cambridge, Mass. 1946

Bibliographical works

  • (with Ruth Lansing) Cervantes. A tentative bibliography of his works and of the biographical and critical material concerning him . Cambridge, Mass. 1931, Boston 1973, 1977
  • (with Arthur Fisher Whittem and Maxwell Isaac Raphael) A Tentative bibliography of Brazilian belles-lettres . Cambridge, Mass. 1931
  • (with Maxwell Isaac Raphael) A Bibliography of Cuban belles-lettres . Cambridge, Mass. 1933, New York 1970
  • (with Maxwell Isaac Raphael) A Tentative bibliography of Paraguayan literature . Cambridge, Mass. 1934
  • (with Carl Tilden Keller) New edition of the Bibliografía crítica de ediciones del Quijote impresas desda 1605 hasta 1917 by Juan Suñé Benages and Juan Suñé Fonbuena (Barcelona 1917) with the title addition Continuada hasta 1937 . Cambridge, Mass. 1939

literature

in order of appearance

  • Henry Grattan Doyle: An appreciation of the work of JDM Ford (Part VIII of the episode Hispanists past and present ). In: Bulletin of Spanish Studies , Vol. 6 (1929), Issue 24, pp. 168-172.
  • James McKeen Cattell: Leaders in Education. A biographical directory . New York 1932 sv
  • Henry Grattan Doyle: Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford . In: Hispania , Vol. 19 (1936), pp. 153-162.
  • Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr. , Alexander Joseph Denomy (Ed.): Mediaeval studies in honor of Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, Smith professor of French and Spanish literature, emeritus . Cambridge, Mass. 1948 (Festschrift).
  • Henry Grattan Doyle: Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford . In: The Modern Language Journal , Vol. 43 (1959), pp. 59-61.
  • Art. Ford, Jeremiah Denis Mathias . In: John F. Ohles (Ed.): Biographical dictionary of American educators , Vol. 1. Greenwood Press, Westport 1978, ISBN 0-8371-9893-3 , pp. 472-473.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Jeffrey Wills (Ed.): The Catholics of Harvard Square . Saint Bede's Publications, Petersham 1993, ISBN 1-879007-00-2 , p. 77.
  2. ^ A b Art. Ford, Jeremiah Denis Mathias . In: John F. Ohles (ed.): Biographical dictionary of American educators , Vol. 1. Greenwood Press, Westport 1978, ISBN 0-8371-9893-3 , pp. 472-473, here p. 472.
  3. ^ Henry Grattan Doyle: JDM Ford receives Laetare Medal . In: The Modern Language Journal , vol. 19, issue 8 (May 1937).


personal data
SURNAME Ford, Jeremiah Denis Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ford, JDM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1958
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts