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American classical scholar
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Charles Henry Beeson (October 2, 1870–1949) was an Poetry (1925) has remained one of the leading texts for learning post-classical Latin. In addition, he was an active researcher and reviewer, especially for the journal Classical Philology. In 1935, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1940.

Biography

Beeson was born in Columbia City, Indiana. In 1893, he received his A.B. in classics from Indiana University. In 1895, he received his A.M. from Indiana. In 1907, he received his Ph.D. from Munich University. While at Indiana University he assisted Carl H. Eigenmann in studies of the fishes of Indiana, and elsewhere, and was the coauthor of a few ichthyological papers, including the Fishes of Indiana, Preliminary note on the relationship of the species usually united under the generic name Sebastodes and Pteropodus dallii sp. nov.

During World War I, he worked in the Military Intelligence Division (MID) Cryptography Department (MI-8).

Publications

Books

  • A Primer of Medieval Latin: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Chicago, 1925.

Articles

  • The Vocabulary of the Annales Fuldenses, Speculum Vol. 1 (1), Jan. 1926: 31-37
  • Isidore's Institutionum Disciplinae and Pliny the Younger, Classical Philology Vol. 8 (1), Jan. 1913: 93-98
  • The Text Tradition of Donatus' Commentary on Terence, Classical Philology Vol. 17 (4), Oct. 1922: 283-305
  • The Archetype of the Roman Agrimensores, Classical Philology Vol. 23 (1), Jan. 1928: 1-14
  • The Manuscript Problem of Vitruvius, Classical Philology Vol. 30 (4) Oct. 1935: 342-347
  • The Text History of the Corpus Caesarianum, Classical Philology Vol. 35 (2), Apr. 1940: 113-125
  • The Collectaneum of Hadoard, Classical Philology Vol. 40 (4), Oct. 1945: 201-222
  • The Manuscripts of Bede, Classical Philology Vol. 42 (2), Apr. 1947: 73-87
  • Lupus of Ferrières and Hadoard, Classical Philology Vol. 43 (3) Jul. 1948: 190-191

References

  1. ^ BEESON, Charles Henry in Who's Who in America (1926 edition); p. 251; via archive.org
  2. "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
  3. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
  4. "Indiana University Register of Graduates - Illinois Residents". Illinois Genealogy Trails. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
  5. Bowman, John Stewart (1995). Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521402583.
  6. Shelby D. Gerking (1956). "A History of the Study of Fishes in Indiana". Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Sciences. 66: 275–285.
  7. Carl H. Eigenmann and Charles H. Beeson (1893). "Preliminary note on the relationship of the species usually united under the generic name Sebastodes". American Naturalist. 27 (319): 668–671. JSTOR 2452003.
  8. Carl H. Eigenmann and Charles H. Beeson (1894). "Pteropodus dallii sp. nov". American Naturalist. 28 (325): 66. JSTOR 2451817.
  9. Kahn, David (1996). The Codebreakers: the Story of Secret Writing. New York: Scribner. p. 352. ISBN 0-684-83130-9.

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