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MINTON WARREN (1850-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 330 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WARREN (1850-1907)  , See also:American classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Pawtucket, Rhode See also:Island, on the 29th of See also:January 185o, a descendant of See also:Richard See also:Warren, who sailed in the " May-See also:flower " in 162o . He was educated at Tufts See also:College and subsequently at Yale . After three years as a schoolmaster, he went to See also:Germany to See also:complete his studies in See also:comparative See also:philology and especially in Latin See also:language and literature . Having taken the degree of See also:doctor of See also:philosophy at See also:Strassburg in 1879, he returned to the See also:United States as Latin See also:professor at Johns See also:Hopkins University . In 1899 he was appointed Latin professor at Harvard . His See also:life-See also:work was a new edition of See also:Terence, which, however, he See also:left unfinished at his See also:death . He was director of the American School of Classical Studies in See also:Rome (1897—1899), and See also:president of the American Philological Association (1898) . Among his publications are: " Enclitic Ne in See also:Early Latin " (Strassburg dissert., reprinted in Amer . Journ. of Philol., 1881); On Latin Glossaries, with especial reference to the Codex Sangallensis (St See also:Gall Glossary) (See also:Cambridge, U.S.A., 1885); The See also:Stele Inscription in the See also:Roman See also:Forum (Amer . Journ. of Philol., vol. See also:xxviii . No . 3, and separately in 1908) .

He died on the 26th of See also:

November 1907 . See Harvard See also:Magazine (See also:Jan . 1908) and IN . M . See also:Lindsay in Classical See also:Review (Feb . 1908) .

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