Charles Henry Beeson (1870–1949) was an American classical scholar. His book '' A Primer of Medieval Latin: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry'' (1925) has remained one of the leading texts for learning post-classical

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

. In addition, he was an active researcher and reviewer, especially for the journal ''

Classical Philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

.'' In 1935, he was elected a Fellow of the

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. He was elected to the

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in 1940. Beeson was born in

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. In 1893, he received his A.B. in classics from

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. In 1895, he received his A.M. from Indiana. In 1907, he received his Ph.D. from Munich University. While at Indiana University he assisted

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in studies of the fishes of Indiana, and elsewhere, and was the coauthor of a few ichthyological papers, including the ''Fishes of Indiana'', ''Preliminary note on the relationship of the species usually united under the generic name ''Sebastodes'' '' and '' ''Pteropodus dallii'' sp. nov''. During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, he worked in the Military Intelligence Division (MID) Cryptography Department (MI-8).

Publications

Books

*''A Primer of Medieval Latin: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry,'' Chicago, 1925.

Articles

*The Vocabulary of the Annales Fuldenses, ''Speculum'' Vol. 1 (1), Jan. 1926: 31-37 *Isidore's Institutionum Disciplinae and Pliny the Younger, ''Classical Philology'' Vol. 8 (1), Jan. 1913: 93-98 *The Text Tradition of Donatus' Commentary on Terence, ''Classical Philology'' Vol. 17 (4), Oct. 1922: 283-305 *The Archetype of the Roman Agrimensores, ''Classical Philology'' Vol. 23 (1), Jan. 1928: 1-14 *The Manuscript Problem of Vitruvius, ''Classical Philology'' Vol. 30 (4) Oct. 1935: 342-347 *The Text History of the Corpus Caesarianum, ''Classical Philology'' Vol. 35 (2), Apr. 1940: 113-125 *The Collectaneum of Hadoard, ''Classical Philology'' Vol. 40 (4), Oct. 1945: 201-222 *The Manuscripts of Bede, ''Classical Philology'' Vol. 42 (2), Apr. 1947: 73-87 *Lupus of Ferrières and Hadoard, ''Classical Philology'' Vol. 43 (3) Jul. 1948: 190-191

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* * 1870 births 1949 deaths American classical scholars American military personnel of World War I Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Indiana University Bloomington alumni People from Columbia City, Indiana Classical philologists Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Linguists from the United States {{US-linguist-stub Members of the American Philosophical Society