Kenneth Morgan Abbott

Kenneth Morgan Abbott (* 3. May 1906 in Lincoln (Nebraska) , † 21st July 1988 in Columbus (Ohio) ) was an American classical scholar , who from 1934 to 1976 as a lecturer and professor at Ohio State University looked .

Life

Kenneth Morgan Abbott studied Classical Philology at Harvard , where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1928 . He completed his doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with William Abbott Oldfather , with whom he stayed in close contact throughout his life. In 1934, the year of his doctorate, he also married the daughter of his doctoral supervisor, Helen Oldfather.

In the same year Abbott went to Ohio State University , where he taught and researched until the end of his life - first as a lecturer, later as Professor of Classics . From 1937 to 1938 he received the Elizabeth Clay Howald Scholarship . After the death of his father-in-law, he and his wife took over the manuscripts he had left behind. Several visiting professorships took him to the University of Illinois (1945–1946, 1958, 1965 and 1969–1970), the University of Iowa (1957) and the University of Waterloo (1968). From 1959 to 1960 he stayed in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship . In 1976 he retired.

In the 42 years of his service at Ohio State University, Abbott developed a rich teaching career that was defining for the institute. In his research, he mainly devoted himself to linguistic topics: Together with his doctoral supervisor, he created an index on Cicero's letters and examined the Latin stage language of late antiquity .

literature

• Charles L. Babcock: Abbott, Kenneth Morgan . In: Ward W. Briggs (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists , Westport, CT / London: Greenwood Press 1994, p. 4, ISBN 978-0-313245-60-2 .

Web links

• Entry on Kenneth Morgan Abbott in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)
• Literature by Kenneth Morgan Abbott in the catalog of the German National Library