Charles Hall Grandgent (14 November 1862 in Dorchester (Boston); † 11 September 1939 in Cambridge (Massachusetts)) was an American Romanist and Italian scholar.
Life and work
Grandgent studied at Harvard University and graduated in 1883. He was a high school teacher at first. From 1896 until 1932 he was Professor in Romanistics at Harvard University. From 1902 until 1911 he was secretary of the Modern Language Association, and in 1912 its president. In 1923 he became honorary president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian at its foundation.
The Dante Society of America confers The Charles Hall Grandgent Award yearly.
Italian grammar, Boston 1887, 1889, 1891, 1892,1903, 1904; (with Ernest Hatch Wilkins) 1915, 1944Vowel measurements, Baltimore 1890 (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Supplement to vol. V. no. 2, 1890, S. 148-174)(with Richard Hochdörfer) German and English sounds, Boston 1892A Short French Grammar, Boston 1894, 1905English in America, in: Die Neueren Sprachen, 1895, S. 443-467, 520-533The essentials of French grammar, Boston 1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908Italian composition, Boston 1904An outline of the phonology and morphology of old provençal, Boston 1905An introduction to vulgar Latin, Boston 1907, New York 1962, Honolulu 2002 (Italian: Milan 1914, 1976, Spanish: Madrid 1928, 1952, 1963)(reprint) Dante, La Divina Commedia, Boston 1911, 1933(with Raymond Weeks und James W. Bright) The N.E.A. phonetic alphabet with a review of the Whipple experiments, Lancaster, Pa. 1912Dante, New York 1916, 1921 (Folcroft 1973), 1966; London 1920The Ladies of Dante's lyrics, Cambridge, Mass. 1917The Power of Dante (Eight lectures), London/Cambridge, Mass. 1920Old and New. Sundry papers, Cambridge, Mass. 1920Discourses on Dante, Cambridge, Mass. 1924, New York 1970Getting a laugh, and other essays, Cambridge, Mass. 1924, 1952, Freeport, N.Y. 1971From Latin to Italian. An historical outline of the phonology and morphology of the Italian language, Cambridge, Mass. 1927, 1940Prunes and prism, with other odds and ends, Cambridge, Mass. 1928, Freeport, N.J. 1971The new world, Cambridge, Mass. 1929Imitation and other essays, Cambridge, Mass. 1933Companion to the Divine Comedy. Commentary, hrsg. von Charles S. Singleton, Cambridge, Mass. 1975(with Ernest Hatch Wilkins and the staff of Research & Education Association) Italian, Piscataway, N. J. 2002George Luther Lincoln: A bibliography of Charles Hall Grandgent's writings, arranged chronologically, in: PMLA 47, 1932, S. 911-914To Charles Hall Grandgent, Urbana, Ill. 1933Charles Hall Grandgent, in: Italica 12, 1935, S. 176-178Henry Grattan Doyle: Charles Hall Grandgent. An appreciation, in: The Modern Language Journal 19, 1935, S. 615Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford: Charles Hall Grandgent, in: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 54, 1939, S. 1400-1402James McKeen Cattell, Leaders in education, a biographical directory, New York 1932, S. 367-368
