About Henry Alfred Todd
Lived 1854 – 1925 (aged 70). Henry Alfred Todd was an American linguist, university teacher, romanist and philologist.
Henry Alfred Todd, Ph. D. (1854–1925) was an American Romance philologist.
Biography Henry Alfred Todd was born at Woodstock, Illinois, on March 13, 1854. He was educated at Princeton (A.B., 1876), and at Paris, Berlin, and Madrid, (1880–83), and at Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1885), where he taught for several years. He held the chair or Romance languages at Stanford, 1891–93, and became professor of Romance philology at Columbia.
He married Miriam Gilman in Baltimore on July 30, 1894, and they had four children.
In 1906 he was president of the Modern Language Association of America.
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American philologist (1854–1925)
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Henry Alfred Todd was born on 13 March 1854 in Woodstock.
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Henry Alfred Todd died on 3 January 1925 in New York City.
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Henry Alfred Todd was a linguist, university teacher, romanist and philologist.
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