Lloyd Kasten

Lloyd August box ( born April 14, 1905 in Watertown, Wisconsin; † 13 December 1999) was an American linguist, Hispanist, Lusitanist medievalist and German descent.

Life and work

Lloyd August Wilhelm box (whose mother tongue was German ) studied at the University of Wisconsin in Madison economy first and then Spanish ( completion 1927). Then he went to the University of Florida in Tallahassee and to Madrid at the Centro de Estudios Historical. He received his Ph.D. in 1931 in Madison with Antonio García Solalinde with work ( Eds.) Secreto de los secretos, translated by Juan Fernández de Heredia. An edition of the Aragonese unique manuscript with literary introduction and glossary.

After Solalindes early death, he took over as assistant professor, founded by his teacher Seminary of Medieval Spanish Studies (later the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies) and managed it successfully for a lifetime. He became associate professor in 1942, full professor in 1947 and later Antonio G. Solalinde Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. In 1975 he became Professor Emeritus, but remained active in the seminar.

Case co-founded the '' Luso - Brazilian Review ''. In 1956 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1974 he became a member of the Academia de la Lengua Española Norte Americana ( ANLE ).

Other works

Lexicography

• ( with Hayward Keniston, Ralph Steele Boggs and HB Richardson ) Tentative Dictionary of Old Spanish, Chapel Hill 1946
• ( with Jean Anderson) Concordance to the " Celestina " in 1499, 1976
• ( with Florian J. Cody ) Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, New York in 2001
• ( with John J. Nitti ) Diccionario de la prose castellana del Rey Alfonso X, New York 2002

Publishing activities

• ( with Eduardo Neale - Silva ) Lecturas escogidas, New York 1934, 1945
• ( with Eduardo Neale - Silva ) Lecturas modernas, New York 1937
• ( with Eduardo Neale - Silva ) Lecturas Amenas, New York 1941
• ( with Claude E. Leroy ) Érico Veríssimo, Gato Preto em Campo de Neve, New York 1947
• Seudo - Aristóteles, Poridat de las poridades, Madrid 1957
• ( with Antonio García Solalinde and Victor Oelschläger ) Alfonso X, General Estoria. Segunda parte, 2 vols, Madrid 1957-1961
• ( with Lawrence Bayard Kiddle ) Alfonso X, Libro de las Cruzes, Madrid 1961
• ( with Wilhelmina Jonxis - Henkemans ) text and concordance of the general Estoria II BNM MS. 10237, Madison 1993
• ( with John Nitti, and Wilhelmina Jonxis - Henkemans ) Electronic texts and concordances of the prose works of Alfonso X El Sabio, Madison 1997
• ( with John Nitti ) The electronic texts and concordances of medieval Navarro- Aragonese manuscripts, Madison 1997
• Juan Fernández de Heredia, The Aragonese version of the Secreto Secretorum, Madison 1999