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CORNELIUS CONWAY FELTON (1807-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORNELIUS See also:CONWAY See also:FELTON (1807-1862)  , See also:American classical See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:November 1807, in See also:West See also:Newbury, See also:Massachusetts . He graduated at Harvard See also:College in 1827, having taught school in the See also:winter vacations of his See also:sophomore and junior years . After teaching in the See also:Livingstone high school of Geneseo, New See also:York, for two years, he became See also:tutor at Harvard in 1829, university See also:professor of See also:Greek in 1832, and See also:Eliot professor of Greek literature in 1834 . In 186o he succeeded See also:James See also:Walker as See also:president of Harvard, which position he held until his See also:death, at See also:Chester, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 26th of See also:February 1862 . Dr See also:Felton edited many classical texts . His annotations on See also:Wolf's See also:text of the Iliad (1833) are especially valuable . See also:Greece, See also:Ancient and See also:Modern (2 vols., 1867), See also:forty-nine lectures before the See also:Lowell See also:Institute, is scholarly, able and suggestive of the author's See also:personality . Among his See also:miscellaneous publications are the American edition of See also:Sir See also:William See also:Smith's See also:History of Greece (1855); See also:translations of See also:Menzel's See also:German Literature (184o), of Munk's Metres of the Greeks and See also:Romans (1844), and of See also:Guyot's See also:Earth and See also:Man (1849); and See also:Familiar Letters from See also:Europe (1865) .

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