Richard Thayer Holbrook

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Richard Thayer Holbrook (* 1870 - July 31, 1934 ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Holbrook was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley .

Works

  • Boys and men. A story of life at Yale, New York 1900
  • Dante and the animal kingdom, New York 1902, 1966
  • (Translator) The farce of Master Pierre Patelin composed by an unknown author about 1469 AD, illustrated with facsimiles of the woodcuts in the edition of Pierre Levet, Paris, ca. 1489, Boston 1905, Geneva 1953
  • Portraits of Dante from Giotto to Raffael. A critical study, London 1911
  • Etude sur Pathelin. Essai de bibliographie et d'interprétation, Baltimore 1917, New York 1965
  • Living French. A new course in reading, writing, and speaking the French language, Boston 1917
  • (Ed.) Farce de Maître Pathelin, Paris 1924, 1937, 1963, 1970, 1986; Oxford 1943
  • (with Régis Michaud and Franck L. Schall) Etudes et aventures patheliniennes, Paris 1925
  • Guillaume Alecis et Pathelin, Berkeley 1928
  • X-ray studies of speech articulations, notes and X-ray films, ed. by Francis James Carmody , Berkeley 1937

literature

  • John Gerig, [Obituary] in: Romanic Review 25, 1934, p. 268

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personal data
SURNAME Holbrook, Richard Thayer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holbrook, Richard T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1870
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1934