About Lewis Freeman Mott
Lived 1863 – 1941 (aged 77–78). Lewis Freeman Mott was an American motivational speaker and literary scholar.
Lewis Freeman Mott (1863 – November 20, 1941) was an American English scholar, born in New York and educated at the City College (S.B., 1883) and at Columbia (Ph.D., 1896). He taught at City College where he became a professor in 1897, and he retired in 1934. Mott served as president of the Modern Language Association in 1911.
His wife, Alice Garrigue Mott (1861–1948), was the younger sister of Tomáš Masaryk's wife.
Works (1894) (1901) Sainte-Beuve (1925)
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Lewis Freeman Mott was born in 1863.
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