Wilmer Cave Wright
Wilmer Cave Wright (full name Emily Wilmer Cave France Wright , born January 21, 1868 in Birmingham , † November 16, 1951 in Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania ) was an American classical philologist .
life and work
Wilmer Cave Wright (born France) studied from 1888 to 1892 at Girton College of Cambridge University and from 1892 to 1893 at Bryn Mawr College ( Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania ). She received her PhD in 1895 at the University of Chicago with a comprehensive study of the sophistic and Neoplatonic influences in the literary work of Emperor Julian . From 1897 she taught at Bryn Mawr College, first as Reader in Classics, from 1898 as Associate Professor of Greek, later as Full Professor of Greek . In 1933 she retired.
Wilmer Cave Wright was one of the best connoisseurs of late antique literature of her time. Her studies of Julian's writings (4th century AD) required a high level of reading in the ancient literature of the preceding centuries. Her literary history (1907), which reached from the Homeric epics to Emperor Julian, was accordingly valued in the professional world and highly praised (for example by Gilbert Murray ). Her translations of the Sophist Vites of Eunapios of Sardis and Philostratus (1922) and of the writings of Julian (1913–1923) also belong in this context . Wright later dealt primarily with the history of medicine in the early modern period and edited new editions of various historical treatises with commentary.
Since 1906 she was married to J. Edmund Wright.
Fonts (selection)
- The Emperor Julian's relation to the new sophistic and neo-Platonism . London 1896
- A Short History of Greek Literature, from Homer to Julian . New York 1907
- Julian . 3 volumes, Cambridge / London 1913–1923 ( Loeb Classical Library )
- Philostratus and Eunapius: The Lives of the Sophists . Cambridge / London 1922 ( Loeb Classical Library )
- Hieronymi Fracastorii de contagione et contagiosis morbis et eorum curatione libri III . New York 1930
- De morbis artificum Bernardini Ramazini diatriba . Chicago 1940
- Giovanni Maria Lancisi: De aneurysmatibus, opus posthumum . New York 1952
- Bernardino Ramazzini: De Morbis Typographorum . Birmingham 1989
literature
- Mabel L. Lang : Wright, Emily Wilmer Cave France . In: Ward W. Briggs (editor): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists . Westport, CT / London: Greenwood Press 1994, ISBN 978-0-313245-60-2 , pp. 726-727
Web links
- Entry on Wilmer Cave Wright in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)
- Short biography at Bryn Mawr College with photo
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wright, Wilmer Cave |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wright, Emily Wilmer Cave France (full name); France, Emily Wilmer Cave (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1951 |
| Place of death | Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania |