Michael Putnam
Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam (born September 20, 1933 in Springfield , Massachusetts ) is an American classical philologist . He is the current W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics at Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island . His research interests are in Latin literature . He has published on Virgil , Horace , Catullus and Tibullus .
Putnam studied at Harvard University and received his doctorate there in 1959 on "Patterns of Personality and Imagery in the Poetry of Catullus." Since 1960 he has taught at Brown University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1996) and the American Philosophical Society (since 1998).
Through his grandmother, Elizabeth Lowell Putnam , he is a member of the wealthy Lowell family in Boston, including Percival Lowell , the founder of the Lowell Observatory .
The asteroid (2557) Putnam is also named after Michael Putnam.
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Putnam in the catalog of the German National Library
- Curriculum Vitae (PDF file; 68 kB)
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| SURNAME | Putnam, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Putnam, Michael Courtney Jenkins; Putnam, Michael CJ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Springfield , Massachusetts |