Richard Henry Mather

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Richard Henry Mather

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Richard Henry Mather (born in Binghamton, New York, 12 February 1835; died in Amherst, Massachusetts, 17 April 1890) was a professor of Greek at Amherst College.

Biography

He graduated at Amherst, was tutor of Greek, assistant professor of that branch, professor of Greek and German in 1864, and professor of Greek and lecturer on sculpture in 1878.

He secured for Amherst College a fine collection of plaster casts, and he has assisted in the growth and development of the college in many other ways. He received the degree of D.D. from Bowdoin College in 1879. Although never the pastor of a church, he often supplied the pulpits of New York City, Boston, and other cities. He spent the winter of 1887/8 in Athens in connection with the work of his professorships.

Works

He edited Greek textbooks for use in colleges, which passed through several editions. The principal ones are:

Herodotus (1872)
Selections from Thucydides
Electra of Sophocles (1873)
Abstract of lectures upon sculpture (1882)
Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus (1883)

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References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Mather, Richard Henry". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton

External links

Henry Allyn Frink (June 15, 1890). An address commemorative of Richard Henry Mather. Amherst College.

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Name	Mather, Richard Henry
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Date of birth	12 February 1835
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Date of death	17 April 1890
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