William Gardner Hale

Classicist, born in Savannah, Georgia, USA. He studied at Harvard (1870 BA), and taught at Cornell University (1880–1892) and the University of Chicago (1892–1919). He was influential in founding the American School of Classical Studies at Rome (now the American Academy at Rome) and was its first director (1895). His Art of Reading Latin (1887) was enormously influential, but his life's work was the preparation of an edition of the Catullus manuscript (known as ‘R’), which he found in the Vatican library.

William Gardner Hale (February 9, 1849 - 1928), American classical scholar, was born in Savannah, Georgia.

He graduated at Harvard University in 1870, and took a post-graduate course in philosophy there in 1874-1876; was tutor in Latin at Harvard from 1877 to 1880, and professor of Latin in Cornell University from 1880 to 1892, when he became professor of Latin and head of the Latin department of the University of Chicago.

He is best known as an original teacher on questions of syntax.

Hale wrote also The sequence of tenses in Latin (1887-1888), The anticipatory subjunctive in Greek and Latin (1894), and a Latin grammar (1903), to which the parts on sounds, inflection and word-formation were contributed by Carl Darling Buck.

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