John McMurry Hill

John McMurry Hill (born September 3, 1887 in Dresden (Tennessee) , † November 6, 1966 in Bloomington (Indiana) ) was an American Romanist and Hispanist.

life and work

Hill graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 1910. In 1912 he received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with the thesis A contribution to old Spanish lexicography . He spent the years 1914 to 1916 in Madrid and Paris. He became a professor of Spanish at Indiana University Bloomington .

Index verborum de Covarruvias Orozco , Bloomington 1921
Poesias barias y recreación de buenos ingenios . A description of ms. 17556 of the Biblioteca nacional matritense, with some unpublished portions thereof, Bloomington 1923
(Ed. With Erasmo Buceta) Antologiá de cuentos espanõles , Boston / New York 1923
(Ed. With John Driscoll Fitzgerald ) Manuel Tamayo y Baus, Un drama nuevo. Drama en tres actos , Chicago / New York 1924
(Ed.) Armando Palacio Valdés , La hermana San Sulpicio , Boston / New York 1925
(Ed. With Frank Otis Reed) Luis Vélez de Guevara, Los novios de Hornachuelos , New York / London 1929
(Ed. With Mabel Margaret Harlan) Cuatro comedias , New York 1941
(Ed.) Poesías germanescas , Bloomington 1945
Voces germanescas, recogidas y ordenadas , Bloomington 1949
"Universal vocabulario" de Alfonso de Palencia. Registro de voces españoles internas , Madrid 1957

JH Parker, [Obituary] in: Hispanic Review 35, 1967, pp. 207-209
Homage to John M. Hill. In memoriam , ed. by Walter Poesse , Bloomington 1968 (with list of publications)

Literature by and about John McMurry Hill in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

personal data
SURNAME	Hill, John McMurry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hill, John; Hill, John M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden (Tennessee)
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1966
Place of death	Bloomington (Indiana)