Frederic de Forest Allen (1844–1897) was an American classical scholar.

Early life

Frederick Forest Allen was born in 1844 in

Oberlin, Ohio Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, 31 miles southwest of Cleveland. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students. The town is the birthplace of th ...

. He graduated at Oberlin College in 1863. Allen taught Greek and Latin at the

University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state ...

from 1866 to 1868. He attended the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

in Germany from 1868 to 1870, where his thesis supervisor was

Georg Curtius Georg Curtius (April 16, 1820August 12, 1885) was a German philologist and distinguished comparativist. Biography Curtius was born in Lübeck, and was the brother of the historian and archeologist Ernst Curtius. After an education at Bonn and ...

. He earned his

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there with his thesis ''De Dialecto Locrensium''.

Career

Allen was Professor of Foreign Languages at the

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,0 ...

, and at

Yale College Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, ...

. He held the chair of classical philology at Harvard for the last seventeen years of his life.

Death

He died in 1897 in

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Bibliography

* ''Remnants of Early Latin'', (1880) * A revision of Hadley's ''Greek Grammar'', (second edition, 1886) * ''Greek Versification in Inscriptions'' (1888) * ''Æschylus: The Prometheus Bound and the Fragments of the Prometheus Unbound'' (1897)

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Frederic de Forest 1844 births 1897 deaths American philologists American classical scholars American non-fiction writers Oberlin College alumni University of Tennessee faculty University of Cincinnati faculty Classical scholars of Yale University People from Oberlin, Ohio Classical scholars of Harvard University Leipzig University alumni Classical philologists Scholars of ancient Greek literature Western Reserve Academy alumni