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American classical philologist
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Place of birth
Oberlin, USA
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GeminiPlace of death
Cambridge, USA; Portsmouth, USA
Age
53 years
Education
Oberlin College
Leipzig University
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Biography
Frederic de Forest Allen (1844–1897) was an American classical scholar.
Early life
Frederick Forest Allen was born in 1844 in Oberlin, Ohio. He graduated at Oberlin College in 1863.
Allen taught Greek and Latin at the University of Tennessee from 1866 to 1868.He attended the University of Leipzig in Germany from 1868 to 1870, where his thesis supervisor was Georg Curtius.He earned his Ph.D. there with his thesis De Dialecto Locrensium.
Career
Allen was Professor of Foreign Languages at the University of Cincinnati, and at Yale College. He held the chair of classical philology at Harvard for the last seventeen years of his life.
Death
He died in 1897 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
External sources
- Frederic de Forest Allen at the Database of Classical Scholars, author: Meyer Reinhold
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Notable American Scholars
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Notable American Judges
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