Alice Braunlich

Life

Alice Freda Braunlich was born to German-born parents in Davenport ( Iowa). Her parents were the doctor Henry Uchtorf Braunlich and Emilie Hedwig Hoering Braunlich. Her father's income enabled Alice Braunlich a study at the University of Chicago, from which she graduated in 1908 with a Bachelor and 1909 with the master degree. From 1912 to 1914 she worked as an assistant for the Latin Professor William Gardner Hale, where she received her doctorate in 1913 with a dissertation on indirect questions in the indicative. From 1914 to 1918 she worked as a lecturer in Latin at the Frances Shimer School in Chicago; in parallel, they took teaching positions at the University of Chicago. From 1918 she worked as a teacher at the high school in her hometown of Davenport. In 1920 she was appointed as an Associate Professor in the Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, where she taught until her retirement (1956 ) and researched ( since 1925 as a full professor ). Your retirement spent Braunlich in Davenport, where she died on August 9, 1989 at the age of 101 years.

In addition to the academic teaching, Braunlich employed to old age with the Greek and Latin languages ​​, especially with the syntax in different authors.