WILLIAM FRANCIS ALLEN (183o-1889)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V01,
Page 693
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:FRANCIS See also:ALLEN (183o-1889)
, See also:American classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Northborough, See also:Massachusetts, on the 5th of See also:September 183o
.
He graduated at Harvard See also:College in 1851 and subsequently devoted himself almost entirely to See also:literary See also:work and teaching
.
In 1867 he became See also:professor of See also:ancient See also:languages and See also:history (afterwards Latin See also:language and See also:Roman history) in the university of See also:Wisconsin
.
He died in See also:December 1889
.
His contributions to classical literature chiefly consist of schoolbooks published in the See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen (his See also:brother) and See also:Greenough See also:series
.
The Collection of Slave Songs (1867), of which he was See also:joint-editor, was the first work of the See also:kind ever published
.
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