Cornelius Conway Felton
Cornelius Conway Felton ( born November 6, 1807 in West Newbury, Massachusetts, † February 26, 1862 in Chester, Pennsylvania) was an American literary scholar and university teacher who was president of Harvard University last from 1860 to his death.
Life
After schooling Felton began studying at Harvard College, where he in 1827 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) acquired. After he taught for two years at Livingstone High School in Geneseo after he in 1829 became a tutor at Harvard College, where she earned in 1830 at the same time a Master of Arts (MA).
In 1832 he was first professor of Greek, before 1834, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University took over and taught there until his death.
In addition to his many years of teaching Felton published out numerous classical texts, whereas his comments on the published by Friedrich August Wolf text edition of the Iliad are to be mentioned. His other major works include translations of Wolfgang Menzel German literature ( German Literature, 1840), by Salomon Munk metric of the Greeks and Romans ( Greeks and Romans of the Metres, 1844) and by Arnold Henri Guyot's Earth and Man ( Earth and Man, 1849). In addition, he published in 1855 the American edition of William Smith's History of Greece.
1860 Felton, who was also administrator of the Smithsonian Institution, as the successor of James Walker President of Harvard University and has held this post until his death. Successor was then Thomas Hill.
Posthumously published in 1865 Familiar Letters from Europe, and in 1867 the two-volume textbook Greece, Ancient and Modern, a collection of 49 lectures at the Lowell Institute.
His younger brothers was the engineer and railway manager Samuel Morse Felton, Sr., and the lawyer and politician John B. Felton. His nephew, Samuel Morse Felton, Jr. was also a railway manager and during the First World War Director Military railway system with the rank of brigadier general.
Publications
- German Literature, 1840
- Metres of the Greeks and Romans, 1844
- Earth and Man, 1849
- History of Greece. Earliest times to the Roman conquest, with supplementary chapters on the history of literature and art, 1855
- Greece, Ancient and Modern, 1867