Charlton Hinman

Charlton Joseph Kadio Hinman (1911 in Fort Collins, CO – 16 March 1977 in Rockville, MD[1]) was the editor of the Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles and The Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare. He is well known as the inventor of the Hinman Collator.[2]

Hinman attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, receiving both his bachelor's and master's degrees there.[1] He later received his doctoral degree in 1941 from the University of Virginia, as Fredson Bowers' first Ph.D. candidate.[3] He was associated with the Folger Shakespeare Library and was professor of English at the University of Kansas from 1960 to 1976.[1]

References

1. Washington Post 1977.
2. Gregory 2008.
3. Smith 2000.

Sources

• Gregory, Dan (July–August 2008). "Devil in the Details". Fine Books & Collections. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
• Smith, Steven Escar (2000). "'The Eternal Verities Verified': Charlton Hinman and the Roots of Mechanical Collation". Studies in Bibliography. 53. Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia: 129–61. ISSN 0081-7600. JSTOR 40372096.
• "Charlton Hinman Dies, Shakespearean Scholar". The Washington Post. 18 March 1977. Retrieved 23 September 2016.