Raleigh Morgan, Jr.
Raleigh Morgan, Jr. (born 1916 in Nashville - † January 29, 1998 in Ann Arbor ) was an American Romanist , French-Canadian and Creoleist .
life and work
Morgan studied at Fisk University (Bachelor in 1938) and at the University of Michigan (Master in 1939). After military service in the US Army and school service in Durham (North Carolina) , he received his doctorate in 1952 from the University of Michigan with the thesis A lexical and semantic study of old French jogleor and kindred terms .
From 1956 to 1959 he was in Germany, first as head of the America House in Cologne, then as cultural attaché at the embassy. From there he went to Washington DC to the Center for Applied Linguistics of the Modern Language Association, from 1961 as a professor at Howard University . After all, he was Professor of Romance Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor from 1965 to 1987 .
Works
- (Ed.) Proceedings of the Conference on Teaching English Abroad , Washington 1959
- The Regional French of county Beauce (Québec), The Hague / Paris 1975
Web links
- Literature by and about Raleigh Morgan, Jr. in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://um2017.org/faculty-history/faculty/raleigh-morgan-jr
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morgan, Raleigh Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romanist, French-Canadian, and Creoleist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nashville |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1998 |
| Place of death | Ann Arbor |