Tenney Frank

Tenney Frank

Tenney Frank (born May 19, 1876 in Clay Center , Kansas , † April 3, 1939 in Oxford ) was an American ancient historian .

Life

Tenney Frank studied at the University of Kansas , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1898 and his master's degree in 1899 . After a short time as a teacher, he went to the University of Chicago as an Instructor of Latin in 1901 , where he received his doctorate in 1903 . In 1904 he moved as an associate professor at Bryn Mawr College , where he was made full professor in 1906 . From 1910 to 1911 Frank deepened his studies in Germany at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin . In 1916/1918 he was Annual Professor at the American Academy in Rome .

In 1919 Frank moved to Johns Hopkins University as Professor of Latin , where he taught and researched until his death. Visiting professorships took him to Bryn Mawr College (Horace White Lecturer, 1929), to the University of California, Berkeley ( Sather Professor , 1929/1930), to Oberlin College ( Martin Lecturer , 1931) and to London (1930/1931, Lecturer at the Hertz Foundation of the British Academy ). Frank remained associated with the American Academy in Rome, was elected President of the American Philological Association for 1928/1929 , and was co-editor from 1920 and editor of the American Journal of Philology from 1936 . In 1935 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1927 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and since 1934 a corresponding member of the British Academy. He died during a stay at Oxford University , where he was George Eastman Visiting Professor in 1938/1939 .

Tenney Frank always taught Latin literature and language at the university. In addition to Roman poetry ( Catullus , Virgil , Horace ), his research was particularly devoted to Roman history. His focus was the economic history of the Roman Empire, which he has dealt with in several monographs and numerous essays since 1914. His main work is the five-volume series An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome (1933–1940), which is arranged by geographical region. Frank himself wrote the first and fifth volumes and edited the remaining three, in which important ancient historians from different countries participated: Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton , Robin George Collingwood , Albert Grenier , Richard Mansfield Haywood , Fritz Moritz Heichelheim , Jakob Larsen , John James Van Nostrand and Vincent Scramuzza .

Fonts (selection)

• Roman Imperialism . New York 1914 ( online ).
• An Economic History of Rome to the End of the Republic . Baltimore 1920 ( online ). Second, revised and expanded edition, Baltimore 1927
• Virgil: A Biography . New York 1922 ( online ; full text in Project Gutenberg )
• A History of Rome . New York 1923
• Roman Buildings of the Republic . New York 1928
• Catullus and Horace: Two Poets in their Environment . New York 1928
• Life and Literature in the Roman Republic . Berkeley 1930
• Aspects of Social Behavior in Ancient Rome . Cambridge, Massachusetts 1932
• An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome . Five volumes, Baltimore 1933-1940

literature

• Herbert W. Benario : Frank, Tenney . In: Ward W. Briggs (ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists , Westport, CT / London: Greenwood Press 1994, ISBN 978-0-313245-60-2 , pp. 196f.

Web links

• Entry on Tenney Frank in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member History: Tenney Frank. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 11, 2018 . 
2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 29, 2020 .