biography
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Rand, Edward Kennard
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| male
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| lived:
| (1871–1945)
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| biography:
| Classicist and mediaevalist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was educated at Harvard (1894 BS) and the University of Munich (1900 PhD), and taught at Harvard (1901–42), where he was Pope professor of Latin (1931–42). He was founder and first president of the Medieval Academy of America (1925), founder and first editor of Speculum, and president of the American Philological Association (1922–3). He published more than 100 articles, and the popular and influential Founders of the Middle Ages (1925) was one of the first works in English to look seriously at the period of late antiquity. |
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