Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr.

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Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr. (born July 13, 1900 in Washington, DC - † May 12, 1972 ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Holmes studied at the University of Pennsylvania , Harvard University , and with Joseph Bédier and Mario Roques in Paris. He taught at the University of Western Ontario , the University of Missouri and from 1925 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where he was appointed Kenan Professor of Romance Philology in 1945.

In 1973 he founded the series “North Carolina studies in the romance languages ​​and literatures”.

Holmes was Knight of the Legion of Honor (1950).

Other works

  • Books of travel , Chapel Hill 1927, 1929
  • The French novel in English translation. An outline for individual and group study , Chapel Hill 1930
  • (Ed. With Hugh Giduz) Sept contes de la vielle France , Boston / New York 1930
  • Mediaeval gem stones. In: Speculum 9, 1934, pp. 195-204
  • A history of Old French literature, from the origins to 130 , Chapel Hill 1937, New York 1962
  • (with Alexander Herman Schutz ): A history of the French language , Columbus 1935, New York 1938, 1967
  • (Ed. With Hugo Giduz) Les contes des sept sages , New York 1938
  • (Ed. With John Coriden Lyons and Robert White Linker) The Works of Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur du Bartas . A critical edition , 3 vols., Chapel Hill 1934-1940; 2 vols., Geneva 1977
  • (Ed. With Alexander Herman Schutz ) A source book for the History of the French language , Columbus 1940
  • (Ed.) Adenet le Roi's Berte from grans pies , Chapel Hill 1946
  • (Ed.) Mediaeval period , Syracuse, NY 1947, 1952 (A critical bibliography of French literature, edited by David Clark Cabeen , vol. 1)
  • A new interpretation of Chrétien's "Conte del Graal ", Chapel Hill 1948
  • (Ed. With Alexander Joseph Denomy) Mediaeval studies in honor of Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford , Smith professor of French and Spanish literature, emeritus , Cambridge, Mass. 1948
  • (Ed. With Alfred G. Engstrom and Sturgis E. Leavitt) Romance studies presented to William Morton Dey , on the occasion of his seventieth birthday by his colleagues and former students , Chapel Hill 1950
  • Daily living in the twelfth century based on the observations of Alexander Neckham in London and Paris , Westport, Conn. 1952, 1980
  • Samuel Pepys in Paris, and other essays , Chapel Hill 1954
  • (with Sister Mary Amelia Klenke) Chrétien, Troyes, and the Grail , Chapel Hill 1959
  • (Ed. With Kenneth R. Scholberg) French and Provençal lexicography. Essays presented to honor Alexander Herman Schutz , Columbus, Ohio 1964
  • Chrétien de Troyes , New York 1970
  • (Ed. With Raymond J. Cormier) Essays in honor of Louis Francis Solano , Chapel Hill 1970

literature

  • Mediaeval studies in honor of Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr. , ed. by John Mahoney and John Esten Keller, Chapel Hill 1965
  • Ruth J. Dean, Grace Frank, William Roach: Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy , in: Speculum 48, 1973, pp. 624-625
  • The Old French Crusade cycle. Dedicated to the memory of Professor Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr. 1900-1972 , University of Alabama Press 1977
  • Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr., Medieval man. His understanding of himself, his society, and the world , ed. by Urban T. Holmes, III, Chapel Hill 1980

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personal data
SURNAME Holmes, Urban Tigner, Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holmes, Urban T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1972