Urban T. Holmes, Jr.

Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr. ( born July 13, 1900 in Washington, DC, † May 12, 1972 ) was an American linguist and medievalist.

Life and work

Holmes graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, at Harvard University, and Joseph Bédier and Mario Roques in Paris. He taught at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Missouri and in 1925 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was appointed in 1945 to the Kenan Professor of Romance Philology.

In 1973 he founded the series " North Carolina studies in the romance languages ​​and literatures ."

Holmes was a knight of the Legion of Honour (1950).

Other works

• Books of travel, Chapel Hill 1927, 1929
• The French novel in English translation. An outline for individual and group study, Chapel Hill 1930
• (Ed. with Hugh Giduz ) Sept contes de la vielle France, Boston / New York 1930
• A history of Old French literature, from the origins to 130, Chapel Hill 1937, New York 1962
• ( with Alexander Herman protection) A history of the French language, Columbus 1935, New York 1938, 1967
• (Ed. with John Coriden Lyons and Robert White Linker) The Works of Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur du Bartas. A critical edition, 3 vols, Chapel Hill from 1934 to 1940; 2 vols, Geneva, 1977
• (Ed. Alexander Herman protection) A source book for the History of the French language, Columbus 1940
• (Ed.) Adenet le Roi 's Berte from grans pies, Chapel Hill 1946
• (Ed.) Mediaeval period, Syracuse, NY 1947, 1952 (A critical bibliography of French literature, ed. Cabeen of David Clark, vol. 1)
• A new interpretation of Chrétien 's " Conte del Graal ," Chapel Hill 1948
• (Ed. Alexander Joseph Denomy ) Mediaeval studies in honor of Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, Smith, professor of French and Spanish literature, emeritus, Cambridge, Mass.. 1948
• (Ed. with Alfred G. Engstrom and Sturgis E. Leavitt ) Romance studies presented to William Morton Dey, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday by his colleagues and former students, Chapel Hill 1950
• Daily living in the twelfth century based on the observations of Alexander Neckham in London and Paris, Westport, Conn. 1952 1980
• Samuel Pepys in Paris, and other essays, Chapel Hill 1954
• ( with Sister Mary Amelia Klenke ) Chrétien, Troyes, and the Grail, Chapel Hill 1959
• (Ed. with Kenneth R. Scholberg ) French and Provençal lexicography. Essays presented to honor Alexander Herman protection, Columbus, Ohio 1964
• Chrétien de Troyes, New York 1970
• (Ed. by Raymond J. Cormier ) Essays in honor of Louis Francis Solano, Chapel Hill 1970