Berthold Louis Ullman (August 18, 1882 in

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

– June 26, 1965 in

Vatican City Vatican City (), officially the Vatican City State ( it, Stato della Città del Vaticano; la, Status Civitatis Vaticanae),—' * german: Vatikanstadt, cf. '—' (in Austria: ') * pl, Miasto Watykańskie, cf. '—' * pt, Cidade do Vati ...

) was an American Classical scholar. Ullman was born in Chicago to Louis Ullman and Eleanora Fried. He was educated at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

(A.B. 1903, Ph.D. 1908). He joined the faculty at Chicago and also taught at the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

and

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the ...

. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1925 until 1944 before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming Kenan professor of Latin and department chair. Ullman's library collection formed the core of the present classics department library at the University of North Carolina. Ullman was also president of the American Philological Association in 1935. In 1948, he was elected as a member of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...

. He married Mary Louise Bates on September 1, 1909. Their son

Edward Ullman Edward Louis Ullman (1912 – 1976), son of classical scholar Berthold Ullman, was trained as a geographer at University of Chicago where he was influenced by the urban and economic emphasis in social science. He was an urban geographer, transp ...

, born in 1912, became a geographer. As a scholar Ullman focused on

Latin language Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, 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 manuscript tradition of ancient texts, and Latin in the Renaissance.

Books

*Ullman, Berthold Louis, Norman E. Henry, Charles Henderson ''Latin for Americans'' (frequently revised, still in print) *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''Sicconis Polentonis Scriptorum Illustrium Latinae Linguae'' Libri XVIII, 1928 *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''Ancient Writing and its Influence'', 1932 *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''Coluccii Salutati De Laboribus Herculis'', 2 volumes, 1951 *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''Studies in the Italian Renaissance'' 1955 *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''Colucii Salutati De seculo et religione'' 1957 *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''The Origin and Development of Humanistic Script'' 1960 *Ullman, Berthold Louis, Philip A. Stadter ''The Public Library of Renaissance Florence'' 1972

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ullman, Berthold Ullman, Berthold Louis Ullman, Berthold Louis Ullman, Berthold Louis Ullman, Berthold Louis Ullman, Berthold Louis Iowa State University faculty Classical scholars of the University of Chicago American Latinists Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America