About Eva Johnston
Lived 1865 – 1941 (aged 76). Eva Johnston was an American university teacher and classical philologist.
Eva Johnston (14 May 1865 – 30 November 1941) was an American philologist and classical scholar. She was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of Königsberg and was second woman professor at the University of Missouri.
Biography Johnston attended school in Ashland, Missouri before further educated at Stephens College in Columbia and then at the University of Missouri from 1892. A hall of residence at the University of Missouri, Johnston Hall, is named after her.
Publications Johnston, Eva. 1905. "Gemination in Terence", Transactions of the American Philological Association 36.
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Who was Eva Johnston?
American classical philologist (1865-1941)
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Eva Johnston was born on 14 May 1865 in Ashland.
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Eva Johnston died on 30 November 1941 in Columbia.
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Eva Johnston was a university teacher and classical philologist.
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Eva Johnston was American.
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