Edward Parmelee Morris

Edward Parmelee Morris
BornSeptember 17, 1853
Auburn, New York
DiedNovember 16, 1938(1938-11-16) (aged 85)
New York City, New York
Alma materYale College
Honours

Edward Parmelee Morris (17 September 1853 - 16 November 1938) was an American classicist.

Life

He was born on September 17, 1853, in Auburn, New York.[1] He graduated from Yale College in 1874, then moved to Cincinnati where his father was living.[2] On January 2, 1879, he married Charlotte Webster Humphrey; her father was the Reverend Z. M. Humphrey and a professor at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati.[2] Humphrey and Morris had four children, Frances Humphrey (born 1880), Edward (born 1885), Margaret (born 1886), and Humphrey (born 1987).[2] Edward died in infancy. Frances and Margaret both attended Bryn Mawr College.[2] Morris died on November 16, 1938, in New York City.[1]

Career

From 1876 to 1877, he taught Latin and history at Purdue College and from 1877 to 1879 he taught Latin and mathematics at Lake Forest College.[3] From 1879 to 1884, Morris taught Greek at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.[4][2] In 1884, he became the Massachusetts Professor of Latin Language and Literature[5][4] at Williams College and was first allowed a year's leave of absence,[2] which he spent the universities of Leipzig and Jena.[1] He returned to Yale as a professor of the Latin language and literature in 1891.[1] He became a significant influence on the work of Arthur Leslie Wheeler, who became Sather Professor at Princeton.[6]

Honors

Morris received an L.H.D. from Williams in 1904 and a Litt.D. from Harvard University in 1909,[4] on the inauguration of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell.[2]

Bibliography

Some of his notable books are:[7]

  • The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus[8]
  • The Mostellaria of Plautus; with explanatory notes
  • On principles and methods in Latin syntax
  • On the sentence-question in Plautus and Terence
  • The study of Latin in the preparatory course

References

  1. ^ a b c d compiled by Staff of Manuscripts and Archives. "Guide to the Edward P. Morris Papers". yale.edu. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Yale University Class of 1874 (1912). Biographical Record of the Class of 1874 in Yale College: Part Fourth, 1874-1909. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company. p. 159. Edward Parmelee Morris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Gordon, Laura. "MORRIS, Edward Parmelee". Database of Classical Scholars. Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.
  4. ^ a b c Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis. 1915. p. 762. Edward Parmelee Morris.
  5. ^ General Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Williams College, 1910. The College. 1910. p. 17. Edward Parmelee Morris.
  6. ^ Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1994. ISBN 9780313245602.
  7. ^ "Morris, E. P. (Edward Parmelee), 1853-1938 - The Online Books Page". upenn.edu. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  8. ^ Gallup, Frank A. (1899-02-01). "Captives and Trinummus of Plautus. E. P. Morris". The School Review. 7 (2): 113–114. doi:10.1086/434003. ISSN 0036-6773.