A Plea For A Spiritual Philosophy: An Eirenicon By A Layman
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Courtney Langdon was an American educator and author. He was a Professor of Romance languages and literatures at the Brown University.
Background
Courtney Langdon was born at Rome, Italy, where his father, William Chauncy Langdon, was founder and first rector of the American Episcopal Church. His mother was Hannah Agnes Courtney of Virginia. Returning to America in 1862, his father became a member of the joint committee of the American Episcopal Church on Italian Catholic reform, and was sent as a representative to Italy in 1867, residing at Florence from that date until 1873. In 1873 his father founded and was the first pastor of Emmanuel Church, Geneva, Switzerland. The father became rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachussets, in 1876.
Education
Courtney was educated from his seventh to his thirteenth year in Italian schools. In Geneva, Switzerland he attended school during his fourteenth and fifteenth years. When he entered Harvard in 1878, he had, as he expressed it, three mother tongues, and he cultivated them all to the close of his life.
Career
He was an instructor in modern languages at Lehigh University (1882 - 1884), a private tutor in Baltimore (1884 - 1886), and an instructor in Romance languages at Cornell (1886 - 1890). He was then called to Brown University as assistant professor of modern languages. His field was later narrowed to Romance languages and literatures, of which he was made professor in 1898.
In 1891 Brown gave him the rare honorary degree of bachelor of arts. During his thirty-four years at Brown he was an important force in the cultural life of the University. In his lectures his chief effort was to interpret the thought of his author in its application to modern life. From another point of view, his lectures formed a review of the spiritual record of the human race, the authors whom he chiefly considered being Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Molière, Milton, and Browning. He paid very little heed to the technical limits of his subject, and many a Brown graduate found his mental awakening in Langdon's lecture room. Various Langdoniana made up of his classroom sayings have found their way into print.
His interest in the life of the students went far beyond the college walls. He followed with enthusiasm all their activities and was a favorite speaker at student gatherings. As a public lecturer on many themes in literature and the philosophy of life he was in wide demand. His thought on religious matters is represented by A Plea for a Spiritual Philosophy, published in pamphlet form a year after his death. World War I stirred him to the depths of his nature, and in 1917 he published Sonnets on the War. He made a translation of Rostand's Chantecler, but owing to copyright difficulties, it was never published.
During the last months of his life he was engaged upon a translation of Ferrero's Roman Historians, which he finished only half an hour before his death. His final visit to Italy, in 1924, was made in part for the purpose of conferring with Ferrero. In his spiritual development he acknowledged a deep obligation to his older Cornell associate, Hiram Corson; later he found in Bergson an elaboration of his own philosophy. He died in Providence, Rhode Island.
In 1883 Langdon married Julia H. Bolles, of Olean, New York, by whom he had a daughter who died in infancy. This marriage was terminated by divorce and, August 1, 1894, he married Susan Hayward Taft, of Uxbridge, Massachussets. He had six sons.