Tenney Frank

Tenney Frank ( born May 19, 1876 in Clay Center, Kansas, † April 3, 1939 in Oxford) was an American historian.

Life

Tenney Frank studied at the University of Kansas, where he attained a Bachelor degree in 1898 and 1899 the Master's degree. After a short time as a teacher, he went in 1901 as an instructor of Latin at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in 1903. In 1904, he joined as an associate professor at the Bryn Mawr College, where he was appointed in 1906 to full professor. From 1910 to 1911 Frank deepened his studies in Germany at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin. In 1916/1918 he was a professor at the Annual American Academy in Rome.

1919 joined Frank as a professor of Latin at the Johns Hopkins University, where he taught until his death and researched. Guest professorships led him to the Bryn Mawr College ( Horace White Lecturer, 1929), at the University of California, Berkeley ( Sather Professor, 1929/1930 ) at Oberlin College ( Martin Lecturer, 1931) and London ( 1930/1931, Lecturer of the British Academy ), the Hertz Foundation. Frank was still connected with the American Academy in Rome, was elected for the year 1928/1929 President of the American Philological Association and was co-editor since 1920, since 1936 editor of the American Journal of Philology. He died during a stay at the University of Oxford, where he was 1938/1939 George Eastman Visiting Professor.

Tenney Frank taught at the University always Latin literature and language. His research was in addition to the Roman poetry ( Catullus, Virgil, Horace ) especially dedicated to Roman history. His focus was on the economic history of the Roman Empire, which he treated in several monographs and numerous articles since 1914. His main work is the five -volume series on Economic Survey of Ancient Rome (1933-1940), organized by geographic region. Frank himself wrote the first and fifth band and edited the remaining three, where significant historian were involved from different countries: Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, Robin George Collingwood, Albert Grenier, Richard Mansfield Haywood, Fritz Moritz Heichelheim, Jacob Larsen, John James Van Nostrand and Vincent Scramuzza.

Writings (selection )

  • Roman Imperialism. New York 1914 (online).
  • An Economic History of Rome to the End of the Republic. Baltimore 1920 ( online). Second, revised and extended edition, Baltimore 1927
  • Vergil: A Biography. New York 1922 ( online; Full text in Project Gutenberg )
  • A History of Rome. New York 1923
  • Roman Buildings of the Republic. New York 1928
  • Catullus and Horace: Two Poets in Their Environment. New York 1928
  • Life and Literature in the Roman Republic. Berkeley 1930
  • Aspects of Social Behavior in Ancient Rome. Cambridge (Massachusetts ) 1932
  • An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Five volumes, Baltimore 1933-1940
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