Ethan Allen Andrews (April 7, 1787 – March 4, 1858) was an American lexicographer and educator. He published a major Latin dictionary in 1850 and served in the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1851 and was a Whig.Connecticut State Library-Members of the Connecticut General Assembly

Life

Andrews was born in

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, and graduated at Yale in 1810. He practiced law for several years, then (1822–1828) was professor of ancient languages at the University of North Carolina, after which he taught at New Haven and Boston. He married Lucy Cowles Andrews, with whom he had one son, Horace. He died on March 4, 1858, in New Britain.

Works

He published a number of Latin textbooks and in 1850 a Latin-English lexicon, a reduced version of

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's German translation of Egidio Forcellini's 1771 dictionary, which became known as ''Andrews' Lexicon''. It went through many revisions and came to be known as ''Harper's Latin Dictionary'' (1907). He published a Latin grammar with his Yale classmate

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, long very popular. A monograph, ''Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States'', was printed in Boston in 1836. Other publications include "First Latin Book"; "Latin Reader"; "Viri Romae"; "Latin Lessons"; "Andrews' and Stoddard's Latin Grammar"; "Synopsis of Latin Grammar"; "Questions on the Latin Grammar"; "Latin Exercises"; "Key to Latin Exercises"; "Exercises in Latin Etymology"; "Caesar's Commentaries"; "Sallust"; and "Ovid".

Books

*''Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States'' (Boston, 1836)

Edited volumes

*''Leisure Hours: A Choice Collection of Readings in Prose'' (Boston, 1844)

Reference works

*''A Copious and Critical Latin-English Lexicon Founded on the Larger Latin-German Lexicon of Dr. Wilhelm Freund'' (New York, 1851)

Textbooks

*''A Grammar of the Latin Language for Use of Schools and Colleges'' with Solomon Stoddard (Boston, 1836) *''Questions upon Andrews' and Stoddard's Latin Grammar'' (Boston and New York, 1836) *''First Lessons in Latin'' (New York and Boston, 1837) *''The First Part of Jacobs and Doring's Latin Reader'' (Boston, 1837) *''Latin Exercises'' (Boston, 1837) *''A Key to Latin Exercises'' (Boston, 1837) *''A First Latin Book or Progressive Lessons in Reading and Writing Latin'' (Boston, 1846) *''A Synopsis of Latin Grammar'' (Boston, 1851) *''Exercises in Latin Etymology'' (Boston, 1855) *''A Manual of Latin Grammar'' (Boston, 1859)

Translations

*''Sallust's History of the War against Jugurtha, and of the Conspiracy of Catiline'' (New Haven, 1841) *''Lhomond's Virie Romae'' (Boston, 1842) *''C. Julius Caeser's Commentaries on the Gallic War'' (Boston, 1846)

References

External links

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Guide to the Ethan Allen Andrews papers
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Ethan Allen 1787 births 1858 deaths Writers from New Britain, Connecticut 19th-century American educators Yale University alumni American lexicographers Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives Connecticut Whigs 19th-century American legislators 19th-century lexicographers Educators from Connecticut 19th-century American non-fiction writers 19th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers 19th-century Connecticut politicians