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John Miller Burnam was born on April 9, 1864 at Irvine, near Richmond, Kentucky, the son of Edmund Hall Burnam, a Baptist minister, and Margaret Shackelford (Miller) Burnam. His mother died when he was about two years old, and he was brought up by a kind stepmother.
Until John was thirteen he received most of his education from his father. In 1877 he entered Central University, then at Richmond, Kentucky, and in 1878 Washington University, St. Louis, where he remained until 1880, when, at the age of sixteen, he entered Yale College. Here he was distinguished for regular attendance at classes, diligence, and ability. He received the degree of A. B. with honors in 1884. Remaining at Yale University as a graduate student in Sanskrit and Latin, he gained the degree of Ph. D. in 1886. Then followed nearly three years of study in Europe.
Burnam was professor of Latin and French in Georgetown (Kentucky) College, 1889-91, and assistant professor of Latin in the University of Missouri, 1891-99. After a year in Europe he became, in 1900, professor of Latin at the University of Cincinnati in the College of Liberal Arts, a position which was later changed to that of research professor of Latin and Romance paleography in the Graduate School. He was devoted to pure scholarship, and when he was relieved from the duty of teaching undergraduates he looked forward joyously to a future rich in scholarly achievement.
He spent many summers in Europe working in libraries containing important manuscripts. His published writings include, in addition to numerous contributions to periodicals, monographs on The Paris Prudentius (1900), The So-Called Placidus Scholia of Statius (1902), Glossemata de Prudentio (1905), Technologia Lucensis (1919).
On August 26, 1921, while on a vacation in California, he received a paralytic stroke from which he suffered until his death, which occurred nearly three months later at Pomona, California.
Burnam's greatest work "Paleographia Iberica" was written in French and was to consist of eighteen parts. The first part appeared in 1912, the second in 1920, the third, completed by Prof. Rodney Potter Robinson, in 1925. The graduate students found him an inspiring teacher whose scholarship combined love for his chosen work, the authority which resulted from years of training and research, the independence of a vigorous and original mind, and the modesty of a sincere and gentle nature.
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His knowledge of Latin was profound, he possessed unusually perfect command of French, Spanish, and Italian, and read with ease all the languages of Europe, including Russian; but his chief interest was in paleography.
He had no love of ostentation and no yearning for wide popularity, but his friends regarded him with deep and lasting affection.
He was never married.
