Oliver Herbert Phelps Prior

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Oliver Herbert Phelps Prior (born September 6, 1871 in Vevey , † July 18, 1934 in Cambridge ) was a British Romanist who grew up in Switzerland.

life and work

Prior was born in Switzerland as the son of an English chaplain abroad. He studied in Lausanne , Göttingen , Freiburg and Halle . In 1913 he received his doctorate from the University of Lausanne with the work L'image du monde de Maître Gossouin. Rédaction en prose. Texts du manuscrit de la bibliothèque nationale, fonds français n ° 574 (Paris, Payot, 1913). Then he went to England and was a high school teacher at Forest School, Berkhamsted School, Dulwich College and Rugby School . From 1915 to 1919 he taught at the University of London and from 1919 until his death as a Fellow of St John's College (Cambridge) and first holder of the chair of Drapers' Professor of French at Cambridge University . There he founded the Professor Prior's Modern Language Society in 1925 , which was renamed The Oliver Prior Society after his death . He was an Honorary Doctor (Hon. DLitt) from Durham University , Honorary Magister (Hon. MA) from Cambridge University and Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Other works

  • (Ed.) Caxton 's Mirrour of the world , London, English Text Society, 1913, 1966, 1999; Milwood, Kraus, 1987.
  • (Ed.) Morceaux choisis des penseurs français du XVIe au XIXe siècle , Paris, Alcan, 1930 (preface by Léon Brunschvicg ).
  • (Ed.) Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet , Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain , Paris, Boivin, 1933; Paris, Vrin, 1970 (introduced by Yvon Belaval).

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personal data
SURNAME Prior, Oliver Herbert Phelps
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prior, Oliver H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance philologist who grew up in Switzerland
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Vevey
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1934
Place of death Cambridge