William Pierce Shepard
William Pierce Shepard (* 1870 , † 1948 ) was an American linguist , Provenzalist and medievalist .
life and work
Shepard received his doctorate from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with the thesis A contribution to the history of the unaccented vowels in Old French (Easton, Pa. 1897, o. O. 2010) and taught from 1896 to 1940 at Hamilton College in Clinton ( Oneida County, New York) . There Ezra Pound was one of his students. Shepard was the most important American Provencalist of his time.
Other works
- (Ed.) Les poésies de Jausbert de Puycibot, troubadour du XIIIe siècle , Paris 1924
- (Ed.) The Oxford Provençal chansonnier , Paris 1927, New York 1965
- (Ed.) La passion provençale du manuscrit Didot. Mystère du XIVe siècle , Paris 1928
- (Ed. And translator with Frank M. Chambers) The Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan , Evanston, Ill. 1950
literature
- Reuben C. Cholakian: Portrait of a Professor. William P. Shepard 1870-1948, in: Hamilton Alumni Review 33, 1967, pp. 4-9
- Rouben Charles Cholakian, The William P. Shepard collection of Provençalia. A critical bibliography , Clinton, NY 1971
- David Ten Eyck: Romance Languages, in: Ezra Pound in context , ed. by Ira B. Nadel, Cambridge, UK 2010, pp. 43-53
Web links
- Literature by and about William Pierce Shepard in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shepard, William Pierce |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shepard, William P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romanist, Provençalist and Medievalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1870 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1948 |