Myra L. Uhlfelder | |
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Born | 1923 |
Died | 2011 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cincinnati; Bryn Mawr |
Thesis | De proprietate sermonum vel rerum (1952) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics;Medieval Latin |
Institutions | Bryn Mawr |
Myra L. Uhlfelder (1923-2011) was a professor of classics at Bryn Mawr. [1] She is known for her work on classical and Medieval Latin.
Uhlfelder studied at the University of Cincinnati (A.B. 1945,MA 1946),and completed a PhD at Bryn Mawr in 1952 under the supervision of Berthe Marie Marti. [1] [2] Her dissertation was published as 'De proprietate sermonum uel rerum. A Study and Critical Edition of a Set of Verbal Distinctions' in the series Papers and monographs of the American Academy in Rome. [3] [4] She taught at Sweet Briar College for 1950-2 and at the State University of Iowa,1952–63,where she became assistant professor. [1] In 1963,she returned to the department of Latin at Bryn Mawr, [5] where she taught until her retirement in 1991. [6] In her retirement,she continued to work on Boethius,and a book on the subject was published posthumously in 2016. [1] [7]
Uhlfelder received the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome for the years 1948–50. [8] [9] She was a Guggenheim fellow in 1958–9. [10]
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