William Gardner Hale
William Gardner Hale ( born February 9, 1849 in Savannah, Georgia, † June 24, 1928 in Stamford, Connecticut) was an American classical philologist.
Life
Hale studied classics at Harvard University, where he worked as a Fellow in the bachelor's degree from 1870 to 1871. After some years as a tutor, he went in 1876 at the suggestion of his teacher William Watson Goodwin ( 1831-1912 ) for one year to Germany, where he furthered his studies at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen. Here he turned to particularly Latin grammar with which he worked all his life.
After his return Hale continued to work as a tutor at Harvard, until he was appointed in 1880 as Professor of Latin at Cornell University. In 1892 he moved to the University of Chicago and remained there until his retirement in 1919. During his time in Chicago Hale was 1892-1893 president of the American Philological Association and from 1895 to 1896 director of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome. He received a doctorate of Union College (1895 ), Princeton University (1896 ), the University of St. Andrews ( 1907) and the University of Aberdeen ( 1907).
Hale made approach several generations of Latin teachers and caused quite the spread of classical studies in the United States. In Latin grammar, he pursued his own method, which became known under the term psychological syntax. Unlike the previous " metaphysical " or "logical" syntax he provided an intuitive mastery of Latin syntax and turned Methods of modern foreign language learning on a "dead " language.
In his research, Hale busy especially with the syntax of the Latin particles and the verbal forms. In a series of essays he reached 1888/1889 to the views of Austrian philologist Emanuel Hoffmann. In the following discussion also took other philologists for Hale party, including the high school teacher Martin Wetzel, 1892 an extensive discussion of the dispute published ( The law in the dispute between Hale and Em Hoffmann about the tenses and moods in Latin Temporalsätzen ).