John Everett Brady

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John Everett Brady (born July 22, 1860 in Davidson , North Carolina , † January 20, 1941 in Franklinton , NC) was an American classical philologist .

Life

John Everett Brady was born to Rufus Archibald Brady and Martha Jane Hart Brady in Davidson , North Carolina (not to be confused with Davidson County ). He graduated from the University of North Carolina and received his bachelor's degree in 1881. He then spent seven years in Europe to deepen his studies: from 1882 to 1888 he studied at the universities of Leipzig , Göttingen , Paris , Athens and Heidelberg , where he obtained a doctorate in Sanskrit , ancient history and classical philology in 1888 . His extensive dissertation was entitled The Sound Changes in the Modern Greek Folk Language and Dialects after Their Development from Ancient Greek and was published in Göttingen as early as 1886.

After completing his doctorate in Heidelberg, Brady returned to the USA and worked as a professor of Latin at Smith College in Northampton (Massachusetts) . When he retired in 1926, the John Everett Brady Prize was donated in his honor, which honors students for outstanding achievements in impromptu translations from Latin.

In addition to his dissertation on the historical sound change in Greek, Brady also made a name for himself with studies on Curtius Rufus (Göttingen 1887) and with his book Women in Roman Literature (Florence / Massachusetts 1894).

literature

  • Charles Henderson, Jr .: Brady, John Everett. In: Ward W. Briggs (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Press, Westport (CT), London 1994, ISBN 978-0-313245-60-2 , p. 61.

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