Edwin Whitfield Fay
Edwin Whitfield Fay (January 1, 1865, Minden, Louisiana - February 17, 1920, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a United States philologist.
Biography
[edit]He graduated from Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1883, received the degree of Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1890, and studied at the University of Leipzig in 1891–92. In 1890-91 he was instructor in Sanskrit and classics at the University of Michigan, in 1892-93 he was acting associate professor of Latin at the University of Texas, in 1893-99 professor of Latin at Washington and Lee College, and beginning 1899 professor of Latin at the University of Texas until his death in Pittsburgh while visiting his sister.
Works
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- A History of Education in Louisiana (1898)
- The Treatment of Rig-Veda Mantras in the Yrhya Sutras (1899)
- T. Macci Planti Mostellaria (1902)
He also published works in journals, mostly academic, but some popular.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ William James Battle (1931). "Fay, Edwin Whitfield". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
References
[edit]- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- William James Battle. "Fay, Edwin Whitfield". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
External links
[edit]- Edwin Whitfield Fay at the Database of Classical Scholars
