William Kelly Prentice

William Kelly Prentice (born October 28, 1871 in New York City , † December 13, 1964 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American classical philologist .

Life

William Kelly Prentice, the son of the lawyer William Packer Prentice, studied Classical Philology at Princeton University from 1887 to 1892 . After completing his bachelor's degree, he worked as an undermaster at the Lawrenceville School, deepened his studies at Princeton Theological Seminary (1893–1894) and spent a semester at the University of Marburg . On his return he was hired as a lecturer at Princeton University in 1894, where he took the master's examination in 1895 . Another study visit took him to the University of Halle . There he studied from 1897 to 1899, reaching 1900 his promotion to Dr. phil. From 1899 to 1900 he took part in an American expedition to Syria . He undertook another expedition from 1904 to 1905.

At Princeton, Prentice was appointed Professor of Greek . In 1908/1909 he was Annual Professor of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens , in 1917/1918 Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley , and from 1921 to 1929 a member of the American Council of Learned Societies . For the last two years of his active career (1938–1940) he was Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Litterature at Princeton.

Prentice's research interests coincided with the priorities of his research: he dealt with Greek historiography, tragedy and epigraphy . His publications deal particularly with Greek inscriptions and their symbolic and semiotic interpretation. He also published popular writings on Greek drama and a chronicle of the Prentice family that goes back eight generations to the time of the founding fathers .

literature

• Ward W. Briggs : Prentice, William Kelly . In: Derselbe (ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. 1994, ISBN 0-313-24560-6 , pp. 509-510

Web links

• Entry on William Kelly Prentice in the Database of Classical Scholars, written by Ward W. Briggs (English)
• William Kelly Prentice Papers (English)