Mary Luella Trowbridge

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Mary Luella Trowbridge (from 1925 also Mary Trowbridge Honey , born February 4, 1894 in Green Valley , Illinois , † October 18, 1941 in Wayne , Nebraska ) was an American classical philologist .

Life

Mary Luella Trowbridge, the daughter of Benjamin Frederick Trowbridge (1851–1905) and Mary Luella b. Giffin (1855-1922), attended high school in Delavan (Illinois) and began her studies in 1911 at the Bradley Polytechnical Institute . In 1912 she moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where she turned to classical studies. In 1915 she earned a Bachelor degree (B. A.) and was in the honor society Phi Beta Kappa was added, in 1916 it also acquired the Master degree (A. M.). In the fall semester of 1916/17 she went to the Wasatch Academy , a small private college in Utah , where she taught Latin and German for two years; for the past six months she was an assistant principal in the administration of the college. She used the semester break to continue her studies. So she went to the University of Wisconsin in the summer of 1917 and to the University of California, Berkeley in the summer of 1918 .

For the winter semester 1918/19 Trowbridge left the Wasatch Academy and returned to the University of Illinois, where she received a doctoral scholarship (Fellowship in Classics) in 1919/20 . In 1920/21 she interrupted her work and went to Italy for a year as a scholarship holder at the American Academy in Rome ; after her return she resumed her doctoral scholarship. In 1922 she received her PhD. Her dissertation, supervised by William Abbott Oldfather , dealt with the ancient literary evidence of glass . It appeared in an expanded form in 1930 and was largely welcomed by experts. Even if the work only takes into account Greek and Latin sources and largely disregards archaeological and epigraphic evidence, it is an important collection of material on the ancient views of the properties, manufacture and use of glass.

After receiving his doctorate, Trowbridge taught at Westminster College in Utah and at Columbia University . On September 5, 1925, she married the botanist Edwin Earle Honey (1891-1956), whom she knew from the University of Illinois and who was then a lecturer in phytopathology at the State College of Washington . In the following years he changed jobs several times, so that the couple moved to Ithaca (New York) in 1926 , to Albion (Michigan) in 1927 and to Piracicaba in Brazil in 1929 ; there Edwin E. Honey had received a chair in phytopathology at an agricultural college.

In 1931 Mary Trowbridge Honey returned to the United States and accepted a teaching position in Latin and English at State Teacher's College in Wayne , Nebraska , which she held for ten years until her untimely death. In 1938/39 she was an exchange teacher at the Casterton School in England. She died at the age of 47 years at a pneumonia . She used her estate to set up a foundation at the University of Illinois that provides loans to students of classical studies.

In addition to her dissertation, Mary Trowbridge published a number of essays and lexicon articles, especially for Pauly's Real Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity .

Fonts

  • Philological Studies in Ancient Glass . Urbana 1930 (dissertation)

literature

  • Durward Howes: American Women. The Standard Biographical Dictionary of Notable Women . Volume 2, Los Angeles 1937, p. 321.
  • William Abbott Oldfather: Mrs. Mary Trowbridge Honey . In: The Classical Journal . Volume 37 (1942), p. 250 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Mary Luella Trowbridge  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The life data of the parents in the database of Find a Grave : father , mother .
  2. ↑ See the reviews of Adrien Blanchet: Journal des savants . Volume 4 (1930), p. 180 f. DB Harden: The Classical Review . Vol. 44 (1930), p. 154. Van Hook: Classical World . Volume 24 (1930), p. 5 f. RC Thompson: Antiquity . Volume 5 (1931), p. 131 f.
  3. ↑ See for example E. Marianne Stern: Ancient Glass in a Philological Context . In: Mnemosyne . Volume 60 (2007), pp. 341-406.
personal data
SURNAME Trowbridge, Mary Luella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honey, Mary Trowbridge (married name); Honey, Mary Luella Trowbridge (full married name); Trowbridge, Mary L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Green Valley (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1941
Place of death Wayne, Nebraska