Harry Thurston Peck

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Harry Thurston Peck (November 24, 1856–March 23, 1914) was an American classical scholar, author, editor, and critic, born at Stamford, Conn. He was educated in private schools and at Columbia College, graduating in 1881. His literary gifts had attracted wide attention by then. He was associated with Columbia until 1910 as a tutor and as a professor.

[edit] His works (in part)

Classical
  • The semitic Theory of Creation, (1886)
  • Latin Pronunciation, (1889)
  • Suetonius, (1889)
  • Roman Life in Latin Prose and Verse, (1895)
  • Trimalchio's Dinner, (1899)
  • A History of Classical Philology, (1911)
Child's stories
Essays
  • The Personal Equation, (1899)
  • What is Good English, (1899)
Collected Poems
  • The Life of Prescott, (1905)
  • Twenty Years of the Republic, (1906)
  • Literature and Studies in several Literatures, (1909)
  • The New Baedeker, (1910)

[edit] Endeavors

Dr. Peck was a frequent and forceful contributor to magazines and newspapers. He was editor in chief of Harper's Classical Dictionary and editor of the Students' Series of Latin Classics and Columbia University Studies in Classical Philology. He was the first editor in chief of the Bookman and was continuously a member of its staff from 1895 to 1906; editor in chief of the International Cyclopedia from 1890 to 1901 and coeditor of the first edition of its successor, the New International, (1902-04).

[edit] Passing

His last years were marked by incapacitating disease which led to his death at Stamford, Conn., March 23, 1914.

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