Harry Caplan

Background

Caplan, Harry was born on January 7, 1896 in Hoag's Corners Rensselaer County, New York, United States. Son of Jacob and Sarah (Tolchin) Caplan.

Education

AB, Cornell Univercity, 1916; AM, Cornell Univercity, 1917; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1921.

Career

Instructor public speaking, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1919-1923; from instructor to professor classics, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, from 1919; department chairman classics, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1929-1946; Goldwin Smith professor classical languages and literature, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, from 1941. Visiting professor summers University of Wisconsin, 1925, University of Michigan, 1932, Northwestern University, 1938, Stanford University, 1942, 48, University of Chicago, 1945, Columbia University, 1946. Fellow Center for Advanced Studies Wesleyan University, 1962-1963, 64.

Achievements

• Harry Caplan has been listed as a noteworthy Classics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • PULPIT ELOQUENCE A LIST OF DOCTRINAL AND HISTORICAL STUDIES IN ENGLISH

    (Ithaca 1955. Speech Monographs, Volume XXII No. 4, Specia...)

  • Pulpit eloquence: A list of doctrinal and historical studies in English (Speech monographs)
  • Mediaeval Artes Praedicandi: A Supplementary Hand-List
  • Mediaeval Artes Praedicandi a Hand-List

Membership

Fellow John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1928-1929 (studying medievalrhetoric in libraries of Europe), also 1956. Served in the United States Army W.W.I, 1918-1919. Fellow Mediaeval Academy American.

Member Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, American Philological Association (president 1955), Speech Association American, Renaissance Society American, Linguistic Society American, Classical Association of England and Whales, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Delta Sigma Rho, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.

Connections

Father:

Jacob Caplan

Mother:

Sarah (Tolchin) Caplan