About Albert Andrew Howard
Albert Andrew Howard was an American classical scholar.
Biographical details
Basic information
| person Full name | Albert Andrew Howard |
| cake Date of birth | October 6, 1858 |
| event_busy Date of death | July 31, 1925 |
Core DBCS data
| Name | HOWARD, Albert Andrew |
| Dates (life) | October 6, 1858 - July 31, 1925 |
| Education | A.B. Harvard, 1882; Ph.D., 1885; study at Leipzig, 1882-3; 1885-6. |
| Professional experience | Prof. Lat. U. California, 1888-90; tutor to prof. Lat. Harvard, 1890-1908; Pope prof. Lat., 1908-25. |
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| Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar | |
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Rutgers DBCS data for Albert Andrew Howard
Albert Andrew Howard has a dedicated entry page on the Rutgers database of classical scholars with the name. Included data from this source may provide the person's name, date of birth, date of death, major works, professional experience, obituaries, and compiler remarks.
About the Rutgers DBCS
The Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars (DBCS) is a database of classical scholars that is owned and operated by Rutgers University. It is a project within the Department of Classics at the School of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick, NJ. Started in 2018, the database has over 900 records of scholars as of April 2020. The core set of records comes from a book by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., titled Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists.
Record numbers
Main details
| Name | HOWARD, Albert Andrew |
| Dat of birth | October 6, 1858 |
| Born city | Palmer |
| Born state/country | MA |
| Parents | Johnson P. & Lucy S. Richmond H. |
| Date of death | July 31, 1925 |
| Death city | Cambridge |
| Death state/country | MA |
| Married | Anna Hillrigl, 1 July 1884. |
Career and works
| Education | A.B. Harvard, 1882; Ph.D., 1885; study at Leipzig, 1882-3; 1885-6. |
| Professional experience | Prof. Lat. U. California, 1888-90; tutor to prof. Lat. Harvard, 1890-1908; Pope prof. Lat., 1908-25. |
| Dissertation | “De usu quodam infinitivi perfecti Latini commentatio” (Harvard, 1885); printed as “On the Use of the Perfect Infinitive in Latin with the Force of the Present,” HSCP 1 (1890) 111-38. |
| Publications | “The aulos or tibia,” HSCP 4 (1893) 1-60; “Notes on Suetonius,” HSCP 7 (1896) 205-14; Allen and Greenough's Shorter Latin Grammar for Schools and Academies, rev. Greenough, assisted by Howard (Boston & London, 1897); Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, ed. with Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, & B. L. D'Ooge (Boston, 1903); “The Mouth-Piece of the Aulos,” HSCP 10 (1899) 19-28; “Notes on a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of Suetonius,” HSCP 12 (1901) 261-65; “Valerius Antias and Livy,” HSCP 17 (1906) 161-82; Index Verborum C. Suetonii Tranquili, with C. N. Jackson (Cambridge, 1922). |
| Notes | A. A. Howard, except for the few years at Leipzig and Berkeley, devoted his whole professional career to one institution. That is, he was a loyal college man. At a time when research libraries did not exist in the United States and academic salaries were not sufficient for European travel and grants almost non-existent, Howard to his credit undertook the only sort of publication that could secure an American scholar international recognition. With a Harvard colleague he compiled a comprehensive index verborum to a major author, in his case Suetonius. The task required enviable Sitzfleisch and two books, the critical editions of Ihm and Roth. This invaluable research tool, dedicated to his wife, deserves comparison with F. L. van Cleef s for Antiphon, Monroe N. Wetmore's for Catullus and Vergil, and W. A. Oldfather's for Apuleius.Harvard undergraduates until my time still called him “Old Howard,'' the name of the most notorious burlesque house in Boston. He was loved by graduate students because he always asked the same question at oral doctoral examinations: “Discuss the literary activities of the Roman emperors.” The man, his teaching, and his other publications are forgotten. His index endureth forever. |
| Sources | WhAm 1:593. |
| Author (entry) | William M. Calder III |
Record notes
About these data
| Retrieval date | Apr. 19, 2020 |
| Copyright | DBCS @ Rutgers |
Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars Est. 2018The Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars (DBCS) is a database of classical scholars that is owned and operated by Rutgers University. It is a project within the Department of Classics at the School of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick, NJ. Started in 2018, the database has over 900 records of scholars as of April 2020. The core set of records comes from a book by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., titled Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists.
