Background
Weeks, Raymond was born on January 2, 1863 in Tabor, Iowa, United States. Son of Joseph Van Rensselaer and Imogene (Cookson) Weeks.
Weeks, Raymond was born on January 2, 1863 in Tabor, Iowa, United States. Son of Joseph Van Rensselaer and Imogene (Cookson) Weeks.
He was educated at Price High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied in Paris from 1895 to 1897 on a Harvard Traveling Fellowship.
He was Chair of Romance Languages at the University of Missouri from 1895 to 1908, and later taught at Columbia University in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1890 and a Master"s degree in 1891. Weeks taught French at the University of Michigan from 1891 to 1893.
In 1895, he was appointed as Chair of Romance Languages at the University of Missouri, where he served until 1908.
During that time, he received his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1897. From 1908 to 1909, he was Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Illinois.
Weeks joined the faculty at Columbia University in New York City in 1909. In 1910, he founded, in collaboration with Henry Alfred Todd and other scholars, the Romanic Review, and he became general editor of the "Oxford French Series." He wrote numerous articles in Old French Literature, and was assistant editor on the New Standard Dictionary (1913).
During World War I, he served in the American Field Service in France for six months.
He died in 1954.
Member Modern Language Association American (president 1922), American Dialect Society (president 1910), Spelling Reform Association (president). Club: Harvard (New York).
Married Mary Arnoldia, March 3, 1885.