Nicholson B. Adams

Nicholson Barney Adams (born November 6, 1895 in Fredericksburg , Virginia , † October 2, 1970 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina ) was an American Romanist and Hispanist.

life and work

Adams graduated from Columbia University . He received his doctorate there in 1922 with the work The Romantic Dramas of García Gutiérrez (New York 1922) and taught from 1924 to 1966 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . In 1958 he was President of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). Adams was a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Córdoba .

Spanish review grammar and composition , Chapel Hill 1932
The Heritage of Spain. An introduction to Spanish civilization , New York 1943, 1959
España. Introducción a su civilización , New York 1947
(with John Esten Keller) Spanish literature. A brief survey , Paterson 1960, 1962, 1974; (with Rafael Aguirre) Panorama de la literatura española , Newark 2005
(Ed. With John Esten Keller) España en su literatura , New York 1962, 1972, 1991
Spanish for today , New York 1964
(Ed.) Hispanoamérica en su literatura , New York 1965, 1993

Hispanic studies in honor of Nicholson B. Adams , ed. by John Esten Keller and Karl-Ludwig Selig , Chapel Hill 1966
[Obituary] in: Hispania 54, 1971, pp. 419-427
Obituary in: The Daily Tar Heel . Publications Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, October 3, 1970, p. 1.

personal data
SURNAME	Adams, Nicholson B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Adams, Nicholson Barney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fredericksburg , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH	2nd October 1970
Place of death	Chapel Hill , North Carolina