Background
Ullman was born in Chicago to Louis Ullman and Eleanora Fried.
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Berchtold Ullman
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He was educated at the University of Chicago (Bachelor of Arts 1903, Doctor of Philosophy 1908).
Career
He joined the faculty at Chicago and also taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Iowa State University. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1925 until 1944 before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming Kenan professor of Latin and department chairman Ullman"s library collection formed the core of the present classics department library at the University of North Carolina.
Ullman was also president of the American Philological Association in 1935.
Their son Edward Ullman, born in 1912, became a geographer. As a scholar Ullman focused on Latin language, the manuscript tradition of ancient texts, and Latin in the Renaissance.
Membership
In 1948, he was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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