Berthold Louis Ullman (August 18, 1882 in

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– June 26, 1965 in

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) was an American classicist.

Life and career

Ullman was born in Chicago to Louis Ullman and Eleanora Fried. He was educated at the

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(A.B. 1903, Ph.D. 1908). He joined the faculty at Chicago and also taught at the

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and

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricult ...

. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1925 until 1944 before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming Kenan professor of Latin and department chair. Ullman's library collection formed the core of the present classics department library at the University of North Carolina. Ullman was also president of the American Philological Association in 1935. In 1948, he was elected as a member of the

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. He married Mary Louise Bates on September 1, 1909. Their son

Edward Ullman Edward Louis Ullman (1912 – 1976), son of classical scholar Berthold Ullman, was trained as a geographer at University of Chicago where he was influenced by the urban and economic emphasis in social science. He was an urban geographer, tran ...

, born in 1912, became a geographer. As a scholar Ullman focused on

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, the manuscript tradition of ancient texts, and Latin in the Renaissance.

Books

*Ullman, Berthold Louis, Norman E. Henry, Charles Henderson ''Latin for Americans'' (frequently revised, still in print) *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''Sicconis Polentonis Scriptorum Illustrium Latinae Linguae'' Libri XVIII, 1928 *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''Ancient Writing and its Influence'', 1932 *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''Coluccii Salutati De Laboribus Herculis'', 2 volumes, 1951 *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''Studies in the Italian Renaissance'' 1955 *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''Colucii Salutati De seculo et religione'' 1957 *Ullman, Berthold Louis ''The Origin and Development of Humanistic Script'' 1960 *Ullman, Berthold Louis, Philip A. Stadter ''The Public Library of Renaissance Florence'' 1972

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