Raymond Weeks

Raymond Weeks ( born January 2, 1863 in Tabor, Iowa; † February 16, 1954 ) was an American linguist, medievalist and phoneticians.

Life and work

Raymond Weeks studied at Phillips Academy and Harvard University. He graduated in 1890 and went from 1891 to 1893 as an instructor at the University of Michigan. From 1893 to 1895 he studied in Europe, mostly in Paris with Gaston Paris and Paul Passy. He received his doctorate with the work Aliscans and the Nerlonesi (some published under the title The messenger in Aliscans, Boston 1897) and was from 1895 to 1908 Professor of Romance Languages ​​at the University of Missouri at Columbia, 1908 to 1909 at the University of Illinois and 1909 to 1929 at Columbia University in New York City.

Weeks founded in 1910 along with Henry Alfred Todd, the magazine Romanic Review. He was 1922 President of the Modern Language Association. Weeks was a knight of the Legion of Honour.

Other works

  • Origin of the Covenant Vivien, Columbia, Missouri 1902
  • (Ed.) La chivalry Vivien. Facsimile edition, Columbia, Missouri 1909
  • ( with James Bright and Charles Hall Grand Gent) The NEA Phonetic Alphabet, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1912
  • French by Sound, Camden 1926
  • (Ed.) The Hound tuner of Callaway, Columbia 1927
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