Michael Herren | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD., University of Toronto |
| Thesis | A philological commentary on the Hisperica famina (1969) |
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| Institutions | York University |
Michael Wayne Herren (born December 15,1940 in Santa Ana,California) [1] is a Canadian classical philologist and medievalist. He taught at York University in Toronto for almost four decades and most recently held the position of Distinguished Research Professor of History and Classics there. [2]
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Herren received his Bachelor of Arts in Humanities with a concentration in Philosophy from Claremont McKenna College in 1962. In 1967,he completed his Master of Studies in Latin and Paleography at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. In 1969,Herren received his doctorate in Classics from the University of Toronto for a commentary on the Hisperica Famina . [3] In 1974,he published an edition and translation of A-text of the Hisperica Faminam,whose origin he argues is Ireland.
At York University,where he spent most of his academic career,Herren founded the Program in Classical Studies at Atkinson College. He taught courses in the humanities and in Greek and Latin literature. For the last fifteen years of his full-time teaching career,he also supervised doctoral students in the graduate program in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. [4]
In 1991,Herren founded the Journal of Medieval Latin ,which quickly became a leading journal in the field of medieval Latin literature. [5] He also co-founded the Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin series,which has been published since 2001. [6] Another project he initiated is the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary Editing Project,which aims to produce a critical edition of a Latin–Old English dictionary from the seventh century. [7]
