William Abbott Oldfather
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William Abbott Oldfather (1880 – 1945) was an American classical scholar.
He was born in Urumiah, Persia (now Urmia
, Iran
) to missionary parents, Jeremiah Oldfather and Felicia (née Rice). The classical scholar Charles Henry Oldfather
(1887 – 1954) was his younger brother; he was noted for many translations, and they sometimes worked together.
He was awarded a doctorate by the University of Munich, in 1908.
He was on the faculty of the University of Illinois
from 1909, where he remained for the rest of his life.
He was born in Urumiah, Persia (now Urmia
Urmia
- Demographics :According to official census of 2006, the population of Urmia is about 871,204.- Language :The population of Urmia is mainly Azerbaijani people, with Kurdish, Assyrian Christian, and Armenian minorities...
, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
) to missionary parents, Jeremiah Oldfather and Felicia (née Rice). The classical scholar Charles Henry Oldfather
Charles Henry Oldfather
Charles Henry Oldfather professor of history of the ancient world,specifically at the liberal arts and science university college of Nebraska...
(1887 – 1954) was his younger brother; he was noted for many translations, and they sometimes worked together.
He was awarded a doctorate by the University of Munich, in 1908.
He was on the faculty of the University of Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
from 1909, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Works
- Ysopet-Avionnet: The Latin and French Texts (1919) with Kenneth McKenzie
- Discourses of EpictetusDiscourses of EpictetusThe Discourses of Epictetus are a series of extracts of the teachings of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus written down by Arrian c. 108 AD. There were originally eight books, but only four now remain in their entirety, along with a few fragments of the others...
(1925), Loeb Classical Library, translator - Contributions Toward a Bibliography of Epictetus (1927)
- Index Apvleianvs (1934)
- Index verborum Ciceronis Epistularum (1938) with H. V. Canter and K. M. Abbott
- Studies in the text tradition of St. Jerome's Vitae patrum (1943) editor