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Henry Alfred Todd

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Name
  
Henry Todd

Died
  
1925

Education
  
Princeton University


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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.

Henry Alfred Todd The memorial of Peter Henry Alfred Todd 1931 2011 by White Lady

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:

  • 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 français (1883).
  • Guillaume de Dole (1887)
  • La naissance du Chevalier au Cygne (1889)

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