Edward Parmelee Morris

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

Life

He was born on September 17, 1853, in Auburn, N.Y.[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 1879 to 1884, Morris taught Greek at Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.[3][2] In 1884, he became the Massachusetts Professor of Latin Language and Literature[4][3] 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.[5]

Honors

Morris received an L.H.D. from Williams in 1904 and a Litt.D. from Harvard University in 1909,[3] on the inauguration of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell.[2]

Bibliography

Some of his notable books are:[6]

  • The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus[7]
  • 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. Archives, compiled by Staff of Manuscripts and; findingaids.feedback@yale.edu, File format. "Guide to the Edward P. Morris Papers". yale.edu. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  2. 1874, Yale University Class of (1912). Biographical Record of the Class of 1874 in Yale College: Part Fourth, 1874-1909. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company. p. 159. Edward Parmelee Morris.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis. 1915. p. 762. Edward Parmelee Morris.
  4. College, Williams (1910). General Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Williams College, 1910. The College. p. 17. Edward Parmelee Morris.
  5. Association, American Philological (1994). Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313245602.
  6. "Morris, E. P. (Edward Parmelee), 1853-1938 - The Online Books Page". upenn.edu. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  7. 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.
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