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Albert was born on June 18, 1863 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of William Clarke and Adelaide (Suplee) Smyth.
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Albert was born on June 18, 1863 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of William Clarke and Adelaide (Suplee) Smyth.
He studied in the public schools of Philadelphia and graduated from the Central High School in 1882. He pursued certain seminar courses of Johns Hopkins University in 1885-86, and in February 1887 received the degree of A. B. extra ordinem.
After two years of desultory work on local newspapers, and some time as assistant librarian in the Mercantile Library, Smyth was engaged in 1885 to catalogue books at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Elected professor of English language and literature at the Central High School of Philadelphia in 1886, from 1893 till his death he was head of the department. He found an outlet in writing and in lecturing, especially in courses arranged by the Free Library of Philadelphia and by the University Extension Society. Among his earlier volumes were American Literature (1889), The Philadelphia Magazines and Their Contributors (1892) and others.
At the age of twenty he had become one of a small group of youths who founded Shakespeariana, which he continued to edit until 1886; later in his writing, teaching, and lecturing he did valuable service in encouraging a wider interest in Shakespeare and became known as a student of Shakespeare and his country. Every summer after 1886 he spent abroad, studying in foreign libraries and establishing lasting friendships with some of the leading scholars of the time.
He wrote Shakespeare's Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre (1898), a revision of seminar studies made at Johns Hopkins. Upon invitation he even superintended a production of Hamlet at Phalerum, Greece.
In 1887 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society, as a delegate of which he delivered a Latin oration at Glasgow on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the university. Two of his memorial addresses were published in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1900), one on Henry Phillips, the other on Daniel Garrison Brinton.
His plans to write a life of Franklin and to edit the writings of George Washington were frustrated by his sudden death in Germantown, Pennsylvania, of Bright's disease.
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He had active and versatile mind. Enthusiasm for his subject, ready wit, a fine presence, a beautiful voice, and a natural gift of eloquence made him an unusually pleasing speaker. Smyth displayed great literary skill, historical accuracy, and good judgment.
He never married.