Cornelius Conway Felton

Background

Cornelius Conway Felton was born on the 6th of November 1807, in West Newbury, Massachusetts.

Education

Cornelius Conway Felton graduated from Harvard University in 1827, having taught school in the winter vacations of his sophomore and junior years.

Career

In 1860 Cornelius Conway Felton succeeded James Walker as president of Harvard, which position he held until his death, at Chester, Pennsylvania, on the 26th of February 1862. Dr Felton edited many classical texts. Greece, Ancient and Modern (2 vols. , 1867), forty-nine lectures before the Lowell Institute, is scholarly, able and suggestive of the author's personality. Among his miscellaneous publications are the American edition of Sir William Smith's History of Greece (1855); translations of Menzel's German Literature (1840), of Munk's Metres of the Greeks and Romans (1844), and of Guyot's Earth and Man (1849); and Familiar Letters from Europe (1865).

Achievements

• Cornelius Conway Felton became tutor at Harvard in 1829, university professor of Greek in 1832, and Eliot professor of Greek literature in 1834. His annotations on Wolf's text of the Iliad (1833) are especially valuable.

Works

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  • Familiar Letters from Europe

Membership

Cornelius Conway Felton was a member of the Hasty Pudding. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1854.