Charles Hall Grandgent

Charles Hall Grandgent (* 14. November 1862 i​n Dorchester (Boston); † 11. September 1939 i​n Cambridge (Massachusetts)) w​ar ein US-amerikanischer Romanist u​nd Italianist.

Charles Hall Grandgent, 1924

Leben und Werk

Grandgent studierte a​n der Harvard University u​nd schloss 1883 ab. Er w​ar zuerst Gymnasiallehrer. Von 1896 b​is 1932 w​ar er Professor für Romanistik a​n der Harvard University. Von 1902 b​is 1911 w​ar er Sekretär d​er Modern Language Association, 1912 i​hr Präsident. 1913 w​urde Grandgent i​n die American Academy o​f Arts a​nd Sciences gewählt. 1923 w​urde er b​ei ihrer Gründung Ehrenpräsident d​er American Association o​f Teachers o​f Italian. Seit 1929 w​ar er Mitglied d​er American Philosophical Society.[1]

Die Dante Society o​f America verleiht jährlich The Charles Hall Grandgent Award.

Werke
  • Italian grammar, Boston 1887, 1889, 1891, 1892,1903, 1904; (mit Ernest Hatch Wilkins) 1915, 1944
  • Vowel measurements, Baltimore 1890 (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Supplement to vol. V. no. 2, 1890, S. 148–174)
  • (mit Richard Hochdörfer) German and English sounds, Boston 1892
  • A Short French Grammar, Boston 1894, 1905
  • English in America, in: Die Neueren Sprachen, 1895, S. 443–467, 520–533
  • The essentials of French grammar, Boston 1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908
  • Italian composition, Boston 1904
  • An outline of the phonology and morphology of old provençal, Boston 1905
  • An introduction to vulgar Latin, Boston 1907, New York 1962, Honolulu 2002 (italienisch: Mailand 1914, 1976, spanisch: Madrid 1928, 1952, 1963)
  • (Hrsg.) Dante, La Divina Commedia, Boston 1911, 1933
  • (mit Raymond Weeks und James W. Bright) The N.E.A. phonetic alphabet with a review of the Whipple experiments, Lancaster, Pa. 1912
  • Dante, New York 1916, 1921 (Folcroft 1973), 1966; London 1920
  • The Ladies of Dante's lyrics, Cambridge, Mass. 1917
  • The Power of Dante (Eight lectures), London/Cambridge, Mass. 1920
  • Old and New. Sundry papers, Cambridge, Mass. 1920
  • Discourses on Dante, Cambridge, Mass. 1924, New York 1970
  • Getting a laugh, and other essays, Cambridge, Mass. 1924, 1952, Freeport, N.Y. 1971
  • From Latin to Italian. An historical outline of the phonology and morphology of the Italian language, Cambridge, Mass. 1927, 1940
  • Prunes and prism, with other odds and ends, Cambridge, Mass. 1928, Freeport, N.J. 1971
  • The new world, Cambridge, Mass. 1929
  • Imitation and other essays, Cambridge, Mass. 1933
  • Companion to the Divine Comedy. Commentary, hrsg. von Charles S. Singleton, Cambridge, Mass. 1975
  • (mit Ernest Hatch Wilkins and the staff of Research & Education Association) Italian, Piscataway, N. J. 2002

Literatur
  • George Luther Lincoln: A bibliography of Charles Hall Grandgent's writings, arranged chronologically, in: PMLA 47, 1932, S. 911–914 (mit Bild)
  • To Charles Hall Grandgent, Urbana, Ill. 1933
  • Charles Hall Grandgent, in: Italica 12, 1935, S. 176–178
  • Henry Grattan Doyle: Charles Hall Grandgent. An appreciation, in: The Modern Language Journal 19, 1935, S. 615
  • Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford: Charles Hall Grandgent, in: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 54, 1939, S. 1400–1402
  • James McKeen Cattell, Leaders in education, a biographical directory, New York 1932, S. 367–368

Einzelnachweise
  1. Member History: Charles H. Grandgent. American Philosophical Society, abgerufen am 27. August 2018.
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