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Cornelius Conway Felton (
November 6,
1807 -
February 26,
1862) was an American educator. He was regent of the
Smithsonian Institution, as well as
professor of Greek literature and
president of
Harvard University.
Biography
Felton was born in
West Newbury, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard College in 1827, having taught school in the winter vacations of his sophomore and junior years. After teaching in the Livingstone High School of
Geneseo, New York, for two years, he became tutor at Harvard in 1829, university professor of
Greek in 1832, and Eliot professor of Greek literature in 1834. In 1860 he succeeded James Walker as president of Harvard, which position he held until his death, at
Chester, Pennsylvania.
Dr Felton edited many classical texts. His annotations on
Wolf's text of the
Iliad (1833) are especially valuable.
Greece, Ancient and Modern (2 vols., 1867), forty-nine lectures before the
Lowell Institute, is scholarly, able and suggestive of the author's personality.
Among his miscellaneous publications are the American edition of
Sir William Smith's
History of Greece (1855); translations of
Menzel's
German Literature (1840), of
Munk's
Metres of the Greeks and Romans (1844), and of
Guyot's
Earth and Man (1849); and
Familiar Letters from Europe (1865).
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