Roland Grubb Kent

Roland Grubb Kent
Born February 24, 1877
Wilmington, Delaware
Died June 27, 1952
Occupation Educator
Nationality United States

Roland Grubb Kent (1877–1952) was an American Educator and a founder of the Linguistic Society of America. He was the first to translate Varro's De Lingua Latina into English. His 1903 doctoral thesis on the history of Thessaly traces the history of the country with particular attention to the times between 600 and 300 BC. Unfortunately, only Chapter V and two appendices were published, and the bulk of his dissertation is currently lost. His Old Persian: Grammar, Texts, Lexicon is one of the seminal works on the subject.[1]

Biography

Kent was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1877 into the family of Lindley Coates Kent and Anna Grubb Kent. Lindley was a decorated Civil War officer and owner of a successful Wilmington lumber business. Anna was a descendant of John Grubb, the early Delaware settler.[2] After receiving his M.A. from Swarthmore College in 1898, Roland continued his classical education at Berlin and Munich universities before completing his studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1903, Roland obtained his Ph.D. with a thesis on the history of Thessaly.[1]

Doctor Kent was appointed Instructor in Greek and Latin at the University of Pennsylvania in 1904, beginning a lifelong career at the university. In 1909 he became Assistant Professor of comparative philology, and he was promoted to full professor in 1916; from 1942 to his retirement in 1947 his title was Professor of Indo-European linguistics.[1]

Roland was one of the founding fathers of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), and from the beginning in 1924 to 1940 he was its secretary-treasurer, before he was elected as president of the LSA for the year 1941.[1]

Major works by Roland Kent

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Encyclopedia Iranica, Volumn I. 1982.
  2. Grubb, David (2008). The Grubb Family of Grubb's Landing, Delaware. Higginson Book Co.

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