Staggering man (3 résultats)

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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Bound in publisher's burgundy cloth. Gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Crease to front board. Bookplate of Helen Tanzer on front end page. Small markings on preface page. viii, 289 pages, 20 cm. Helen Henrietta Tanzer was born in New York City in February 1876 to German-speaking Jewish parents Arnold and Ida Tanzer. She had a brother, Lawrence (b. 1874), and a sister, Edith (b. 1877). She graduated from Barnard College in 1903, with a senior thesis titled "English Usage, as shown by the Recent revision of the Bible." She taught Greek and Latin at Hunter College, New York, and received her doctorate from Johns Hopkins in 1929. In that same year, she began teaching classics and archaeology at Brooklyn College, where she remained until her retirement. She spent much time abroad, studying at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome and working for the Belgian Information Service (1918-1919) and as editor of the Belgian Bulletin. Named to the Chevalier Order of Leopold II by Belgium, she also held the post of honorary attached to the Belgian embassy in Washington. As an author, her first known published work is 'Juvenal on Education,' in Essays in Honor of M.B. Wilson (1922). In 1948, Tanzer received the Medal of Merit at the bicentennial celebration of the excavation of Pompeii. Her book The Common People of Pompeii: A Study of the Graffiti (1939) examines that city in the context of everyday life, thus foreshadowing the interest of students at the end of the twentieth century. Tanzer's most important role, however, may have been as a propagator of classical and archaeological texts through her work as a translator.…