Aaron Marshall Elliott

Aaron Marshall Elliott (24 January 1844 – 9 November 1910) was an American novelist and professor at Johns Hopkins University. He was one of the founders of the Modern Language Association.

Early life Aaron Marshall Elliott was born on 24 January 1844, in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, to Rhoda (née Mendenhall) and Aaron Elliott. He attended school in North Carolina. From a Unionist family, Elliott moved north in 1862 to evade service in the Confederacy. In late 1861, he studied at New Garden Boarding School (later Guilford College), where his uncle Nereus Mendenhall taught. He graduated from Haverford College in 1866 and then taught briefly in the South. In 1867, he joined Harvard University as a senior and graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1868. He later graduated from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. From 1871 to 1872, he studied at the Istituto di Studi Superiori in Florence. He studied at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1873 and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the University of Tübingen, and the University of Vienna from 1874 to 1876. He graduated with a doctoral degree from Princeton University with a PhD in 1877. Elliott was one of the founders of the Modern Language Association and its review, the Publication of the Modern Language Association. He served as its secretary for seven years and president for one year. He was the editor of Modern Language Notes. He was a clubman. He was president of the Hopkins Club and was a member of the Maryland University and Baltimore County clubs.

Awards and legacy Elliott received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wake Forest University in 1891 and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Haverford University in 1908.