Jeremiah Denis Mathias Ford, Ph.D (1873 – 1958) was a college professor of French

French language

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 and Spanish

Spanish language

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 at Harvard

Harvard University

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.

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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, and attended Harvard

Harvard University

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 (1894; Ph.D, 1897). From 1910 to 1911, he was vice president of the Modern Language Association

Modern Language Association

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. Ford also served as president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 (1931-1933).

He edited Goldoni's

Carlo Goldoni

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 Curioso Accidente (1899), Moratín's

Leandro Fernández de Moratín

Leandro Fernández de Moratín was a Spanish dramatist, translator and neoclassical poet.-Biography:Moratín was born in Madrid the son of Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, a major literary reformer in Spain from 1762 until his death in 1780.Distrusting the teaching offered in Spain's universities at...

 Se de las niñas (1899), Alarcón's Capitán Veneno (1900), A Spanish Anthology (1901), The Romance of Chivalry in Italian Verse (1904; second edition, 1906), Old Spanish Readings (1906; new enlarged edition, 1911), and Selections from Don Quijote (1908).

He published:

• The Old Spanish Sibilants (1900)
• Exercises in Spanish Composition (1901)
• Spanish Grammar (1904)

Further reading

• Holmes, Urban T. Mediaeval studies in honor of Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, Smith professor of French and Spanish literature, emeritus, Cambridge: Harvard University Press
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  , 1948. (OCLC: 1671602)