Name Clyde Pharr | Books Homeric Greek | |
Died December 31, 1972, Austin, Texas, United States | ||
Clyde Pharr (17 February 1883 (or 1885) – 31 December 1972), was a Professor of Greek and Latin at Vanderbilt University from 1925–1949 and was head of the Classics department there for many years. After retiring from Vanderbilt, he was appointed Visiting Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin in 1950, was named Research Professor there in 1952, and Emeritus Research Professor of Classics in 1966. He died in Austin on December 31, 1972.
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Early life
Pharr was born in Evans Point, Texas, the son of Samuel Milton Pharr and Josephine Fleming Pharr. He attended Saltillo High School and earned B.S. and A.B. degrees from East Texas Normal College (now Texas A&M University-Commerce) in 1903 and 1905, respectively. While in college, he became good friends with Sam Rayburn who later was Speaker of the United States House of Representatives for many years. Pharr continued his education at Yale University, earning another A.B. there in 1906. He was named an Abernathy Fellow at Yale and was granted his Ph.D. in 1910. Pharr subsequently studied at the University of Berlin and other European universities, as well as at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Career
Pharr's first faculty appointment was as Assistant Professor of Latin and Greek at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he served from 1912 to 1917. He then moved to Southwestern Presbyterian University before being appointed Associate Professor at Vanderbilt in 1924. Pharr developed a national reputation through his textbooks for Greek and Latin, some of which remain in print. Later, he turned his attention to Roman law and was general editor of The Theodosian Code, the translation and publication of which proved to be a long and winding road. However, the translation was well received.
Pharr had intended to oversee the translation into English of "the entire body of Roman law," but various problems prevented him from bringing this project to fruition. When he died in 1972, only the Codex Theodosianus translation and a volume of pre-Theodosian laws had been published.
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