Otis Howard Green
Otis Howard Green (born December 11, 1898 in Monroe , Michigan , † April 22, 1978 ) was an American Romance philologist and Hispanist .
life and work
Green spent part of his childhood in Cuba. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University . Then he did his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania under James Pyle Wickersham Crawford with the work The life and works of Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (Philadelphia 1927, Spanish Zaragoza 1945) and taught at the same university from 1939 to 1968 as a professor.
Green was President of the Modern Language Association in 1968 .
Other works
- Courtly love in Quevedo, Boulder 1952, Ann Arbor 1991 (Spanish Zaragoza 1955)
- Spain and the Western tradition. The Castilian mind in literature from El Cid to Calderón, 4 vols., Madison / London 1963–1968 (Spanish Madrid 1969)
literature
- Arnold G. Reichenberger , [Obituary] in: Hispanic Review 37, 1969, pp. 5–22 (with list of publications)
- The Literary mind of Medieval and Renaissance Spain. Essays by Otis H. Green. Introduction by John E. Keller, Lexington 1970
- Otis H. Green, Hispanic Studies at Penn from Rennert to Sebold, in: Hispanic Review 40, 1972, pp. 1-18
- Hispanic Review 46, 1978, p. 402 (date of death)
- PG Earle, AE Foley, PM Lloyd and Russell P. Sebold: Remembering Otis, in: Hispanic Review 48, 1980 (Otis Howard Green Memorial Issue), pp. 5–13 (with list of publications)
Web links
- Literature by and about Otis Howard Green in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Green, Otis Howard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Green, Otis H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance philologist and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monroe (Michigan) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1978 |