Raymond Weeks

Raymond Weeks (born January 2, 1863 in Tabor , Iowa , † February 16, 1954 ) was an American Romanist , Medievalist and phonetician.

Life

Raymond Weeks studied at Phillips Academy and Harvard University . He graduated in 1890 and went to the University of Michigan as an instructor from 1891 to 1893 . From 1893 to 1895 he studied in Europe, mainly in Paris with Gaston Paris and Paul Passy . He received his doctorate with the work Aliscans and the Nerlonesi (published in part under the title The messenger in Aliscans , Boston 1897) and was Professor of Romance Studies at the University of Missouri at Columbia from 1895 to 1908 , from 1908 to 1909 at the University of Illinois and from 1909 to 1929 at Columbia University in New York City .

Weeks founded in 1910 along with Henry Alfred Todd magazine Romanic Review . He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1922 . Weeks was a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Origin of the Covenant Vivien, Columbia, Missouri 1902
(Ed.) La Chevalerie Vivien. Facsimile edition, Columbia, Missouri 1909
(with James Bright and Charles Hall Grandgent ) The NEA Phonetic Alphabet, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1912
French by Sound, Camden 1926
(Ed.) The Hound-Tuner of Callaway, Columbia 1927

Alfred Fichtner, Studies on the Pinch d'orange, and Examination of Weeks' "Origin of the Covenant Vivien.", Diss. Halle a. P. 1905
Günther Schütz, Relaciones e intercambio epistolar de Rufino José Cuervo con británicos y norteamericanos, manuscript (480 pages), Erlangen 2008, pp. 221–229

personal data
SURNAME	Weeks, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romanist, Medievalist and Phoneticist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 2, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tabor , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 1954