Morris Hicky Morgan (February 8, 1859 – March 16, 1910) was an American academic, professor of
classical philology
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at
Harvard University
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.
Life
Morris H. Morgan was born in
Providence, Rhode Island
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on February 8, 1859.
[Morgan, Morris Hicky]
in ''Who's Who in America
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'' (1901–1902 edition), via archive.org Immediately after graduating from
Harvard College
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, he was appointed to the teaching staff. After the death of Frederic D. Allen in 1899 he succeeded to the chair of classical philology. He was praised by his fellow classicists as an interpreter of
Vitruvius
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. His translation of Vitruvius's
''The Ten Books of Architecture'', based on an older translation by Valentine Rose (second edition, Leipzig, 1899), remains in print today, though he died before completing it, the final parts being translated by Albert A. Howard. In a note to a 2009 English edition, translator Richard Schofield writes that Morgan's translation "is certainly the best in English and deserves its longevity... and I doubt if his dignified and intelligent prose could be surpassed, even though here and there it is faintly dated."
In 1896 he was appointed Harvard University Marshall.
Morgan fell seriously ill on March 15, 1910 while on a trip to New York. He died in
Newport the following day.
Notes
References
*, Morris Hicky Morgan: 1859-1910, in ''
Classical Philology
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'' 5 (1910), p. 357.
*
''A Short History of Classical Scholarship from the Sixth Century BC to the Present Day'' Cambridge, 1915, p. 425.
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American classical scholars
Classical scholars of Harvard University
1859 births
1910 deaths
Scholars of ancient Greek literature
American classical philologists
Harvard College alumni