Thomas Atkinson Jenkins

Thomas Atkinson Jenkins (born May 24, 1868 in Wilmington , Delaware , † March 23, 1935 ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Jenkins came from a Quaker family . He attended Swarthmore College and the Wharton School of Finance and Economy . After a stay in Paris he received his doctorate in 1894 with Aaron Marshall Elliott at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with the thesis "L'Espurgatoire seint Patriz" of Marie de France. An Old-French poem of the twelfth century, published with an introduction and a study of the language of the author (Philadelphia 1894, Geneva 1974; new edition with the Latin original, Chicago 1903) and was then professor at the University of Chicago .

Thomas Atkinson Jenkins was the father of Francis Arthur Jenkins (1899-1960), a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley .

(Ed.) Eructavit. An old French metrical paraphrase of psalm XLIV, published from all known manuscripts and attributed to Adam de Perseigne, Dresden 1909
(Ed.) La Chanson de Roland, Boston 1924
(Ed. With William A. Nitze) Le haut Livre du Graal: Perlesvaus, 2 vols., Chicago (Ill) 1932–1937, New York 1972
Word studies in French and English, Baltimore 1933, New York 1966
(Ed. With others) La seinte resureccion. From the Paris and Canterbury mss. Edition begun by the late T. Atkinson Jenkins & JM Manly, and completed by Mildred K. Pope and Jean G. Wright, Oxford 1943, New York 1967

personal data
SURNAME	Jenkins, Thomas Atkinson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wilmington , Delaware
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 1935