Carl Darling Buck
- Carl Darling Buck
Carl Darling Buck (
October 2 ,1866 -February 8 ,1955 ), Americanphilologist , was born inBucksport, Maine .He graduated from Yale in 1886, was a graduate student there for three years, and studied at the
American School of Classical Studies inAthens (1887-1889) and inLeipzig (1889-1892).In 1892 he became professor of
Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology at theUniversity of Chicago , and was later namedMartin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Comparative Philology.In his early career, he concentrated on the Italic dialects, including among his published work, "Der Vocalismus der oskischen Sprache" (1892), "The
Oscan -Umbrian Verb-System" (1895), and "Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian, with a collection of inscriptions and a glossary" (1904), and a "précis" of the Italic languages in Johnson's "Universal Cyclopaedia". He collaborated with W.G. Hale in the preparation of "A Latin Grammar" (1903).Later, he worked extensively on the Greek dialects, publishing: "The Greek dialects; grammar, selected inscriptions, glossary" (1910), "Comparative grammar of Greek and Latin" (1933); and on more general Indo-European issues.
His "Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages" (1949, reprinted 1988, ISBN 0-226-07937-6 ) was called by
Calvert Watkins "a treasure house of words, word origins, expressions, and ideas..., a monument to a great American scholar".citequoteMany of Buck's books went through multiple editions, and several are still in print.
References
*1911
External links
* [http://www.forumromanum.org/latin/buck_1.html Carl Darling Buck, "A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian", Boston, 1904.]
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