Jesse Benedict Carter

Jesse Benedict Carter (born June 16, 1872 in New York , † July 20, 1917 in Cervignano del Friuli ) was an American classical philologist and religious scholar .

He studied first at New York University (1889–1890), then at Princeton (1890–1893). He then continued his studies in Germany ( Leipzig , Berlin , Göttingen 1893–1895). From 1895 to 1897 Carter taught Latin at Princeton University, and then from 1897 to 1898 at the University of Halle , where he received his doctorate on August 4, 1898 as a student of Georg Wissowa with the dissertation De deorum Romanorum cognominibus quaestiones selectae . Between 1898 and 1907 he was again active as a professor of Latin at Princeton. Between 1904 and 1907 Carter was Annual Professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, whose director he was from 1907 to 1912, before becoming director of the newly established American Academy in Rome in 1913 . His main area of ​​research was the Roman religion .

Jesse Benedict Carter died of heat stroke on July 20, 1917 .

Publications (selection)

• De deorum Romanorum cognominibus quaestiones selectae . Leipzig 1898 Internet Archive
• Selections from the Roman Elgiac Poets . New York 1900
• Epitheta deorum quae apud poetas latinos leguntur . Leipzig 1902 ( detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology , supplement; PDF )
• The Religion of Numa . London / New York 1906
• The Religious Life of Ancient Rome . Boston / New York 1911

literature

• JMP: Jesse Benedict Carter , in American Journal of Archeology 21, 1917, 340.
• Ward W. Briggs : Carter, Jesse Benedict . In: Derselbe (Ed.), Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists , Westport (Conn.) 1994, p. 89.

Web links

• Entry on Jesse Benedict Carter in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)