Selatie Edgar Stout

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Selatie Edgar Stout (also Selatie E. Stout , born December 27, 1871 in Jamesport , Daviess County , Missouri , † December 14, 1969 in Indianapolis , Marion County , Indiana ) was an American classical scholar .

Life

The native of the city ​​of Jamesport in the state of Missouri, Selatie Edgar Stout, the eldest of five children of the farmer Theophilus Thompson Stout (1848-1932) and his wife Sarah Elizabeth born Willcoxen (1854-1919), acquired in 1891 the academic degree of Bachelor of Science at Grand River College in Edinburgh, in 1901 a Bachelor of Arts from William Jewell College in Liberty. He then turned twelve semesters to study classical philology at the University of Chicago , in 1910 he received his Ph. D. at Princeton University .

Selatie Edgar Stout married Frances Mabel Blodgett (1876–1939) on December 30, 1905 in St. Louis . The sons Richard Edgar and Paul Blodgett came from this connection. Stout died in Indianapolis in late 1969, just before he was 98.

After positions as superintendent at schools in Missouri and as principal at Chillicothe High School in Chillicothe , Ohio, Stout took on the position of instructor in Latin at William Jewell College in 1906 , and in 1908 he was promoted to Professor of Latin . In 1914, Stout became a professor of Latin at Indiana University . In addition, he held the position of Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences there since 1918 , that of Dean since 1920 , and in 1942 he retired .

Selatie Edgar Stout, one of the leading classical scholars in the USA of his time, received an honorary doctorate in law (Honorary LLD) from William Jewell College in 1942 . He was a member of the American Philological Association , the Classical Association of Middle West an South, and the American Association of University Professors.

Fonts

  • The Governors of Moesia, a dissertation, submitted to the Faculty of Princeton University, The Falcon press, Princeton, 1911
  • Latin in the Latin class. A list of convenient Latin words and expressions, University Bookstore, Bloomington, In., 1917
  • The Eight-Book Manuscripts of Pliny's Letters, in: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 55, 1924, pp. 62-72.
  • Reconstructing a past Civilization, in: The Classical Journal 22, 1925, pp. 100-111.
  • L. Antistius Rusticus, in: Classical Philology 21, 1926, pp. 43-51.
  • Scribe and critic at work in Pliny's letters. Notes on the history and present status of the text, (= Indiana University publications. Humanities series Vol. 30) Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1954 ( full text ).
  • Pliny: epistulae. A critical edition, (= Indiana University humanities series Vol. 49) Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1962
  • Note on book V of the Aeneid. In: Classical, mediaeval and Renaissance studies in honor of Berthold Louis Ullman , Rome 1964, pp. 107–112.

literature

  • Robert Cecil Cook: Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States. Vol. 3. Who's Who in American Education, Nashville, Tenn., 1934, p. 689.
  • Who was who in America. Vol. 5: 1969-1973, Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1973, p. 700.
  • Donald Eugene Thompson: Indiana Authors and Their Books, 1967-1980, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., 1981, p. 375.
  • Ward W. Briggs (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1994, ISBN 0-313-24560-6 , p. 613.

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