Eva Johnston

{{short description|Archaeologist, glass expert}} {{confuse|Eva Johnson }} {{use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Eva Johnston | honorific_suffix = | image = Eva_Johnston_(1863-1941).jpeg | image_size = | alt = Painting of Eva Johnston in academic dress, looking over her shoulder towards the viewer | caption = Painting of Eva Johnston | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_date = {{birth date|1865|05|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = Ashland, Missouri, US | death_date = {{death date and age |1941|11|30|1865|05|14|df=yes}} | death_place = Columbia, Missouri, US | citizenship = | residence = | other_names = | occupation = Latin teacher<br>Academic | period = | known_for = First woman to receive a doctorate from the University of Königsberg | home_town = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards =  | website = | education = | alma_mater = University of Königsberg | thesis_title = De sermone terentiano quaestiones duae | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1905 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline = Classics | sub_discipline = Latin comedy | workplaces = Columbia High School<br>University of Missouri | doctoral_students =  | notable_students =  | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Eva Johnston''' (14 May 1865 – 30 November 1941) was an American philologist and classical scholar. She was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of Königsberg<ref name=AAUW>{{cite web |url=https://columbia-mo.aauw.net/notablewomen/womenfm/eva-johnston/ |title=Eva Johnston (1865 – 1941) |publisher=AAUW (Columbia) |accessdate=3 December 2021}}</ref> and was second woman professor at the University of Missouri.<ref name=DCS>{{cite web |url=https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/8826-johnston-eva |title=JOHNSTON, Eva |publisher=Database of Classical Scholars |accessdate=3 December 2021}}</ref><ref name=Bio>{{cite book |title=Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists |page=312 |date=1994 |publisher=American Philological Association}}</ref>

==Biography== Johnston attended school in Ashland, Missouri before further educated at Stephens College in Columbia and then at the University of Missouri from 1892.<ref name=AAUW /> She worked as a Latin tutor at the university before spending time as a teaching fellow. She was the chair of Latin at Columbia High School.<ref name=AAUW />

From 1899 Johnston studied under Richard Heinze at the University of Berlin. From 1901-1904 she returned to the University of Missouri as the assistant professor of Latin. She again left Missouri, in 1904, to return to her graduate studies under Heinze. He was, by this time, at the University of Königsberg. Her research focussed on Latin comedy.<ref name=DCS /> In 1905 Johnston was the first woman to earn a doctorate from that institution.<ref name=AAUW /> Her thesis was titled ''"De sermone terentiano quaestiones duae"''.<ref name=Bio />

Johnston again returned to Missouri to teach Latin. She became the advisor to women from 1912-1921, latterly the Dean of Women from 1922.<ref name=DCS /><ref name=AAUW /> Johnstone became full professor of Latin in 1931, retiring two years later. She was named as a professor emeritus of Latin in 1938.<ref name=AAUW />

Johnston died on 30 November 1941. An archive of her correspondence is held at the State Historical Society of Missouri.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/c0656 |title=EVA JOHNSTON PAPERS, 1893, 1923-1926 (C0656) |publisher=State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=3 December 2021}}</ref> A hall of residence at the University of Missouri, Johnston Hall, is named after her.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://housing.missouri.edu/johnston |title=Residential Life: JOHNSTON |publisher=University of Missouri |accessdate=3 December 2021}}</ref>

==Publications== *Johnston, Eva. 1905. "Gemination in Terence", ''Transactions of the American Philological Association'' 36.

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