William Henry Schofield

William Henry Schofield (1870–1920 ) was a Canadian-American academic, founder of the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. He was a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation (1916–1919).

He taught Old Norse at Harvard from 1900 and from 1906 was director of the new Comparative Literature department.

Education and academic career He received his B.A. from Victoria College in 1889 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1895.

Personal life William Henry Schofield was born in Brockville, Ontario on April 6, 1870.

He married Mary Lyon Cheney on September 4, 1907.

He died in Peterborough, New Hampshire on June 24, 1920, and was buried at All Saints Church. In this work on the Libeaus Desconus, Schofield argued that the original of the Fair Unknown theme was Perceval.

The source and history of the seventh novel of the seventh day in the Decameron (1893) Studies on the Libeaus Desconus (1895) The lay of Guingamor (1897) The Home of the Eddic Poems with Especial Reference to the Helgi-Lays by Sophus Bugge (1899) translator The lays of Graelent and Lanval and the story of Wayland (1900) Ibsen's Masterbuilder (1900) Chaucer's Franklin's tales (1901) Signy's lament (1902) The story of Horn and Rimenhild (1903) The nature and fabric of the Pearl (1904) English literature : from the Norman conquest to Chaucer (1906) Symbolism, allegory, and autobiography in the Pearl (1909) Romance, vision & satire : English alliterative poems of the 14th century (1912) with Jessie Weston Chivalry in English literature : Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare (1912) The sea-battle in Chaucer's Legend of Cleopatra (1913) The chief historical error in Barbour's Bruce (1916) An American international institute for education (1918) Mythical bards and The life of William Wallace (1920)