William Henry Carpenter (philologist)
William Henry Carpenter (1853, Utica, N. Y.-1936) was an American philologist.
He was educated at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Hamilton College, Leipzig, and Freiburg. He became the provost of Columbia University[1] and was elected vice-president of the Germanistic Society of America.[2] His publications include:
- Grundriss der neuisländischen Grammatik (1881)
- Nikolasdrapa Halls Prest, An Icelandic Poem from A. D. 1400 (1881)
- Some Conditions of American Education (1911)
Among his students in Germanics were linguist Edward Sapir.[3]
References
- ^ Columbia University in the City of New York Catalogue, 1914-1915, New York: The University, http://www.archive.org/details/catalogue1914colu, p. 11.
- ^ The Activities of the Germanistic Society of America, 1904-1910, Publications of the Society, IV, New York: The Society, 1910, http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924032755591, pp. 8, 22, 29, 30.
- ^ Darnell, R. (1990). Edward Sapir: linguist, anthropologist, humanist. University of California press Berkeley & Los Angeles. p. 8. ISBN 0520066782.
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1853 |
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1936 |
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