Henry Alfred Todd
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Henry Alfred Todd, Ph. D. (1854–1925) was an American
Romance
philologist, born at Woodstock, Ill.
He was educated at Princeton
(A.B., 1876), and at Paris, Berlin, and Madrid, (1880-83), and at Johns Hopkins University
(Ph. D, 1885), where he taught for several years. He held the chair or Romance
languages at Stanford
, 1891-93, and became professor of Romance philology at Columbia
. In 1906 he was president of the Modern Language Association of America
.
In 1910, with Raymond Weeks
and other scholars, he founded the Romanic Review, the first learned review in English
devoted entirely to the Romance languages
. Among his publications are:
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Romance
Romance (genre)
As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as...
philologist, born at Woodstock, Ill.
Woodstock, Illinois
Woodstock is a far northwest suburb of Chicago in McHenry County, Illinois. The population was 20,151 at the 2000 census. The 2010 Census shows 24,770 residents. It is the county seat of McHenry County...
He was educated at Princeton
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
(A.B., 1876), and at Paris, Berlin, and Madrid, (1880-83), and at Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
(Ph. D, 1885), where he taught for several years. He held the chair or Romance
Romance (genre)
As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as...
languages at Stanford
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, 1891-93, and became professor of Romance philology at Columbia
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. In 1906 he was president of the Modern Language Association of America
Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association of America is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature...
.
In 1910, with Raymond Weeks
Raymond Weeks
Raymond Weeks, Ph.D. was an American philologist and phonetician, born at Tabor, Iowa. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover in 1887 and from Harvard in 1890. In 1897 he took his Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1910 he founded, in collaboration with H. A...
and other scholars, he founded the Romanic Review, the first learned review in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
devoted entirely to the Romance languages
Romance languages
The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, more precisely of the Italic languages subfamily, comprising all the languages that descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome...
. Among his publications are:
- La panthère d'amours, an allegorical poem of the thirteenth century, the first text to be edited by a foreigner in the series of the Société des anciens textes françaisSociété des anciens textes françaisSociété des anciens textes français is a learned society founded in Paris in 1875 with the purpose of publishing all kinds of medieval documents written either in langue d'oïl or langue d'oc . Its founding members are Henri Bordier, marquis J. de Laborde, A...
(1883). - Guillaume de DoleGuillaume de DoleGuillaume de Dole is an Old French narrative romance by Jean Renart. Composed in the early thirteenth century, the poem is 5656 lines long and is especially notable for the large number of chansons it contains, and for its active female protagonist...
(1887) - La naissance du Chevalier au Cygne (1889)