| Birth date | March 13, 1854 |
|---|---|
| Birth place | Woodstock, Illinois, US |
| Death date | January 3, 1925 (aged 70) |
| Death place | New York, New York, US |
| Resting place | Green Mount Cemetery |
| Occupation | Philologist |
| Spouse | Miriam Gilman (m. July 30, 1894) |
| Education | Princeton University |
Henry Alfred Todd, Ph. D. (1854–1925) was an American Romance philologist.
Biography
Henry Alfred Todd was born at Woodstock, Illinois, on March 13, 1854.[1] He was educated at Princeton (A.B., 1876), and at Paris, Berlin, and Madrid, (1880–83), and at Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1885), where he taught for several years. He held the chair or Romance languages at Stanford, 1891–93, and became professor of Romance philology at Columbia.
He married Miriam Gilman in Baltimore on July 30, 1894, and they had four children.[1] His daughter, Martha Clover Todd, married Allen Dulles, later Director of the CIA. [2]
In 1906 he was president of the Modern Language Association of America.[1]
In 1910, with Raymond Weeks and other scholars, he founded the Romanic Review, the first learned review in English devoted entirely to the Romance languages. Among his publications are:
- La panthère d'amours, an allegorical poem of the thirteenth century, by Nicole de Margival, the first text to be edited by a foreigner in the series of the Société des anciens textes français (1883).
- Guillaume de Dole (1887)
- La naissance du Chevalier au Cygne (1889)
Henry Alfred Todd died at his home in New York City on January 3, 1925. He was buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.[3]
References
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XIV. James T. White & Company. 1910. pp. 204–205. Retrieved 2020-12-15. – via Google Books.
- ^ "MISS MARTHA TODD TO WED A.W. DULLES; Parents Announce Daughter's Engagement to a Member of the Diplomatic Service. SHE WAS a WAR WORKER Bridegroom-to-Be, Who is a Nephew of Ex-Secretary Lansing, Served at Vienna. (Published 1920)". The New York Times. August 3, 1920.
- ^ "Dr. Henry A. Todd Dies in New York". The Baltimore Sun. 1925-01-05. p. 12. Retrieved 2020-12-15. – via Newspapers.com.