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George Rapall Noyes (Slavic scholar)

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Name
  
George Noyes


Role
  
Slavic scholar

Books
  
A New Translation of the Bo, Heroic Ballads of Servia ‑ S, Tolstoy

Similar People
  
Adam Mickiewicz, John Dryden, Alexander Ostrovsky, George Villiers - 2nd Duke, Juliusz Slowacki

George Rapall Noyes (April 2, 1873 – May 5, 1952) was Professor of Slavic Languages at Berkeley University of California.

George was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1873, and attended Harvard University, graduating at the top of his class in 1894. After receiving his M.A. he completed his PhD dissertation, Dryden as Critic in 1898. He then engaged in the study of Russian under Professor Leo Wiener and obtained a John Harvard Fellowship to spend the two years studying of Slavic philology at St. Petersburg University.

Translations

He became a prolific translator:

  • Plays of Alexander Ostrovsky (1917)
  • Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz (1917)
  • The Religion of Ancient Greece by Thaddeus Zieliński (1926)
  • Poems by Jan Kochanowski (1928)
  • Juliusz Slowacki: Anhelli (1930)
  • Masterpieces of Russian Drama (1933)
  • References

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