Kenneth McKenzie

Kenneth McKenzie (born July 24, 1870 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , † November 3, 1949 ) was an American Romanist and Italianist.

Life

McKenzie - son of a Harvard pastor - studied from 1891 with Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908) and Edward Stevens Sheldon (1851-1925). He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1895 with the thesis The development of Italian lyric poetry before the rise of the Dolce Stil Nuovo .

From 1900 McKenzie was an instructor, then assistant professor for Romance languages at Yale University , from 1915 professor at the University of Illinois and most recently at Princeton University . He was the founding president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian.

Works

(Ed.) Alfred de Musset, Trois comédies. Fantasio. On ne badine pas avec l'amour. Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée , Boston / New York 1901, 1932
(Translator) Jean de La Fontaine, Fifty Fables , New York 1903
(Eds.) Victor Hugo, Ruy Blas , New York 1909
(Ed.) Goldoni, Il ventaglio , New Haven 1911
(Ed.) Molière's Les fourberies de Scapin , Boston 1914
Concordanza delle rime di Francesco Petrarca , Oxford 1912, Turin / New York 1969
(Ed. With Milton Stahl Garver [1879–1937]) Il bestiario toscano . Secondo la lezione dei codici di Parigi e di Roma, Rome 1912, Bologna 1971
(Ed. With William Abbott Oldfather [1880–1945]) Ysopet-Avionnet. The latin and french texts (ascribed to Walter of England), Urbana 1919
Opportunities for higher education in Italy , New York 1921
(Ed.) La vita nuova di Dante Alighieri , Boston / New York 1922
Conferenze sulla letteratura americana , Bari 1922
(with Arthur Hamilton) Elementary French grammar , New York 1923
(Ed.) Silvio Pellico, Le mie prigioni (selections) and Francesca da Rimini , Chicago 1924
(Ed.) Victorien Sardou, La perle noire , New York 1924
(Ed.) Firmin Roz, Souvenirs d'un lycéen français , New York 1925
(Eds.) Antonio Pucci, Le noie , Princeton / Paris 1931, New York 1965
(Ed. With Aimée G. Leffingwell McKenzie) Henry Gréville, Petite princesse , New York / London 1938

literature

To Kenneth McKenzie , in: Italica 15, 1938, pp. 93–206 (with list of publications)

Web links

Literature by and about Kenneth McKenzie in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
http://findingaids.princeton.edu/getEad?eadid=C0494&kw= (Fable Collection)
http://findingaids.princeton.edu/getEad?eadid=C0206&kw= (correspondence)

personal data
SURNAME	McKenzie, Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 24, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cambridge , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1949