Charles Hall Grandgent

Charles Hall Grandgent, 1924

Charles Hall Grandgent (14 November 1862 in Dorchester (Boston); † 11 September 1939 in Cambridge (Massachusetts)) was an American Romanist and Italian scholar.

Life and work

Grandgent studied at Harvard University and graduated in 1883. He was a high school teacher at first. From 1896 until 1932 he was Professor in Romanistics at Harvard University. From 1902 until 1911 he was secretary of the Modern Language Association, and in 1912 its president. In 1923 he became honorary president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian at its foundation.

The Dante society of America confers The Charles Hall Grandgent Award yearly.

Works

• Italian grammar, Boston 1887, 1889, 1891, 1892,1903, 1904; (with Ernest Hatch Wilkins) 1915, 1944
• Vowel measurements, Baltimore 1890 (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Supplement to vol. V. no. 2, 1890, S. 148-174)
• (with Richard Hochdörfer) German and English sounds, Boston 1892
• A Short French Grammar, Boston 1894, 1905
• English in America, in: Die Neueren Sprachen, 1895, S. 443-467, 520-533
• The essentials of French grammar, Boston 1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908
• Italian composition, Boston 1904
• An outline of the phonology and morphology of old provençal, Boston 1905
• An introduction to vulgar Latin, Boston 1907, New York 1962, Honolulu 2002 (Italian: Milan 1914, 1976, Spanish: Madrid 1928, 1952, 1963)
• (reprint) Dante, La Divina Commedia, Boston 1911, 1933
• (with Raymond Weeks und James W. Bright) The N.E.A. phonetic alphabet with a review of the Whipple experiments, Lancaster, Pa. 1912
• Dante, New York 1916, 1921 (Folcroft 1973), 1966; London 1920
• The Ladies of Dante's lyrics, Cambridge, Mass. 1917
• The Power of Dante (Eight lectures), London/Cambridge, Mass. 1920
• Old and New. Sundry papers, Cambridge, Mass. 1920
• Discourses on Dante, Cambridge, Mass. 1924, New York 1970
• Getting a laugh, and other essays, Cambridge, Mass. 1924, 1952, Freeport, N.Y. 1971
• From Latin to Italian. An historical outline of the phonology and morphology of the Italian language, Cambridge, Mass. 1927, 1940
• Prunes and prism, with other odds and ends, Cambridge, Mass. 1928, Freeport, N.J. 1971
• The new world, Cambridge, Mass. 1929
• Imitation and other essays, Cambridge, Mass. 1933
• Companion to the Divine Comedy. Commentary, hrsg. von Charles S. Singleton, Cambridge, Mass. 1975
• (with Ernest Hatch Wilkins and the staff of Research & Education Association) Italian, Piscataway, N. J. 2002

Literature

• George Luther Lincoln: A bibliography of Charles Hall Grandgent's writings, arranged chronologically, in: PMLA 47, 1932, S. 911-914
• To Charles Hall Grandgent, Urbana, Ill. 1933
• Charles Hall Grandgent, in: Italica 12, 1935, S. 176-178
• Henry Grattan Doyle: Charles Hall Grandgent. An appreciation, in: The Modern Language Journal 19, 1935, S. 615
• Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford: Charles Hall Grandgent, in: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 54, 1939, S. 1400-1402
• James McKeen Cattell, Leaders in education, a biographical directory, New York 1932, S. 367-368

External links

• http://www.issawiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=%7E_Charles_H._Grandgent_(1862-1939),_United_States[]
• http://www.aati-online.org/

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