Background

Ethnicity: Meyer Reinhold's parents were Jewish immigrants from the eastern part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Meyer Reinhold was born on September 1, 1909, in Brooklyn, New York.

Education

Meyer Reinhold attended the local Bushwick High School. Then, he received his Bachelor of Arts from the City College of the City University of New York in 1929 and his doctorate from Columbia University in 1933. He also studied in Rome for two years as a fellow of the American Academy.

Career

From 1938 to 1955, Meyer Reinhold taught classical languages and literature at Brooklyn College, but he got fired when he refused to reveal his political affiliations to the government. The college later apologized to him and others for these unjust dismissals. In need of work, Reinhold joined his brother's advertising firm, Richmond Advertising Services, where he was vice president for ten years. He returned to academia as an associate professor of Greek, Latin, and ancient history at Southern Illinois University in 1965, moving on to the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1967 as a professor of classical studies. Promoted to Byler Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies in 1976, Reinhold left the university as an emeritus professor in 1980.

However, Meyer Reinhold did not retire from teaching and went on to found the Institute for the Classical Tradition at Boston University in 1991, where he was a visiting professor until 1995. Reinhold was also founder and co-editor of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition. As a writer, among his publications, many of which have remained in use in United States colleges, are some two dozen authored and edited books, including The Classical Drama, Essentials of Greek and Roman Classics: A Guide to the Humanities, and Studies in Classical History and Society.

Achievements

• Meyer Reinhold was widely known as a writer and educator. He taught for more than fifty years. As a writer, Reinhold was the author of twenty-three books. Besides, he was a founder of the Institute for the Classical Tradition and International Journal of the Classical Tradition at Boston University.

Works

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  • Classics Greek and Roman

    (Detailed summaries, interpretations, criticisms of Aeschy...)

    1960
  • Classic Americana

    (In this first comprehensive study of the American classic...)

    1984
  • Roman Civilization

    (These volumes consist of selected primary documents from ...)

    1990
  • Studies in Classical History and Society

    (Professor Reinhold, a distinguished senior classicist, ha...)

    2002
  • Essentials of Greek and Roman Classics

    (Introduces ancient Greek and Latin literature, and review...)

    1947
  • Barron's simplified approach to Vergil 1966
  • The Golden Age of Augustus 1978
  • Baron's Simplified Approach to Ten Greek Tragedies 1965
  • Barron's Simplified Approach to Homer 1967
  • Marcus Agrippa 1965
  • A simplified approach to Plato & Aristotle 1964
  • History of purple as a status symbol in antiquity 1970
  • The Classick Pages 1975
  • From Republic to Principate 1988
  • Classical Drama 1959
  • Past And Present 1972

Views

As a teacher, Meyer Reinhold went against tradition in his belief that the classics should be taught in translation so that those who could not read Greek or Latin could also appreciate these ancient works.

Membership

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  Phi Beta Kappa , United States

Interests

• Writers

  Publius Vergilius Maro

Connections

Meyer Reinhold married Diane Roth on September 29, 1939. They had two children, Helen and Robert.

Wife:

Diane Roth

Daughter:

Helen Reinhold Barrett

Helen Reinhold Barrett is a Dean of the Graduate School at the Tennessee State University.

Son:

Robert Reinhold

Robert Reinhold was a leading reporter for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

Brother:

Louis E. Reinhold

Louis Reinhold was president of Richmond Advertising Associates, an advertising agency he founded in 1928 and was a three-term president of the League of Advertising Agencies.