Frederic de Forest Allen

Frederic de Forest Allen (1844–1897) was an American classical scholar.

Early life Frederick Forest Allen was born in 1844 in Oberlin, Ohio. He graduated at Oberlin College in 1863.

Allen taught Greek and Latin at the University of Tennessee from 1866 to 1868.

Career Allen was Professor of Foreign Languages at the University of Cincinnati, and at Yale College. He held the chair of classical philology at Harvard for the last seventeen years of his life.

Death He died in 1897 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.