Sturgis Elleno Leavitt

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Sturgis Elleno Leavitt (born January 24, 1888 in Newhall , Maine , † March 3, 1976 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina ) was an American Romance philologist and Hispanist .

life and work

Sturgis Leavitt attended school in Gorham . He studied at Bowdoin College and taught at various universities from 1908. He received his doctorate in 1917 from Harvard University with the work Scarron in England, 1656-1800 and taught from 1917 to 1960 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , from 1945 as a Kenan Professor . Leavitt was the associate editor of the Hispanic Review .

Leavitt received honorary degrees from Davidson College and Bowdoin College. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1974) and the Real Academia Española (1974).

Works

  • Chilean literature, a bibliography of literary criticism, biography and literary controversy, Baltimore 1923
  • Argentine literature. A bibliography of literary criticism, biography, and literary controversy, Chapel Hill 1924
  • The Estrella de Sevilla and Claramonte, Cambridge 1931
  • A tentative bibliography of Peruvian literature, Cambridge (Mass.) 1932
  • Hispano-American literature in the United States. A bibliography of translations and criticism, Cambridge (Mass.) 1932, Ann Arbor 1966
  • A tentative bibliography of Bolivian literature, Cambridge, Mass. 1933
  • (with Carlos García-Prada) A tentative bibliography of Colombian literature, Cambridge, Mass. 1934
  • (Ed.) Tres cuentos sud-americanos, New York 1935
  • (with Sterling Aubrey Stoudemire) Elements of Spanish, New York 1935
  • (with Sterling Aubrey Stoudemire and Pedro Antonio de Alarcón)! Vamos a empty! Unified Spanish, New York 1944, 1967
  • (Ed. With Urban T. Holmes, Jr., Alfred G. Engstrom) Romance studies presented to William Morton Dey, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / by his colleagues and former students, Chapel Hill 1950
  • (with Sterling Aubrey Stoudemire) Sound Spanish, New York 1950
  • (Ed. With Sterling Aubrey Stoudemire) Tesoro de lecturas, New York 1958
  • Revistas hispanoamericanas. Indice bibliográfico, 1843–1935, Santiago de Chile 1960
  • (Ed. With Sterling Aubrey Stoudemire) Por los siglos. An anthology of Hispanic readings, New York 1961
  • (Ed.) Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La Vida es sueño and El Alcalde de Zalamea, New York 1964
  • An introduction to Golden Age drama in Spain, Madrid 1971
  • Golden Age drama in Spain. General consideration and unusual features, Chapel Hill 1972

literature

  • South Atlantic studies for Sturgis E. Leavitt, ed. by Thomas B. Stroup and Sterling Aubrey Stoudemire, 1953, Freeport 1972 (with CV, list of publications and picture)

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personal data
SURNAME Leavitt, Sturgis Elleno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist and Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Newhall , Maine
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1976
Place of death Chapel Hill , North Carolina