Harry Mortimer Hubbell

Harry Mortimer Hubbell (30 August 1881 - 24 February 1971) was an American classicist.

Life

He was born in Belvue, Kansas on 30 August 1881 to Mortimer Barnett and Hannah Virginia Buzzard. He was married to Alice Pendleton Clark.[1] He died on 24 February 1971.

Career

He was a graduate of Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut. He received his BA, MA and PhD from Yale University.[2]

He held a visiting professorship at the University of California Berkeley. He was a Fulbright Fellow and, at Goucher College, one of the first John Hay Whitney Professors.[2]

His main area of research interest was Greek and Latin rhetoric.[2] His dissertation was titled The Influence of Isocrates on Cicero, Dionysius and Aristides.[3]

References
  1. Association, American Philological (1 January 1994). Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313245602. Retrieved 17 March 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. Parry, Adam (20 July 1972). Studies in Fifth Century Thought and Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521083058. Retrieved 17 March 2017 – via Google Books.
  3. "Harry Mortimer Hubbell". goodreads.com. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
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