Joseph Newhall Lincoln

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Joseph Newhall Lincoln (born November 6, 1892 in Quincy (Massachusetts) , † August 8, 1945 in Ann Arbor ) was an American Romanist , Hispanist and Lusitanist .

life and work

Lincoln studied at Amherst College and Harvard University (graduated in 1916). From 1917 to 1919 he did military service, from 1918 in France. There he then studied in Clermont-Ferrand. In 1919 he went to the University of Michigan , until 1923 as an instructor, from 1927 as an assistant professor, from 1940 as an associate professor. From 1923 to 1927 he was at Harvard University, as well as in Spain and France. He received his doctorate in 1931 from Harvard with the work La Leyenda de Yuçuf. An aljamiado text with transcription and study (Cambridge, Mass. 1930). In 1942 he added Portuguese to his Hispanic teaching.

Other works

  • Descriptive bibliography of Spanish studies for the use of graduate students , Ann Arbor 1938
  • Guide to the bibliography and history of Hispano-American literature , Ann Arbor 1939
  • Saint Ursula, the Infanta Isabel, and Lope de Vega , Ann Arbor 1947
  • Charts of Brazilian literature , Ann Arbor 1947

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