AKA Cornelius Conway Felton

Born: 6-Nov-1807
Birthplace: West Newbury, MA
Died: 26-Feb-1862
Location of death: Chester, PA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Unitarian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Scholar

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Classical scholar of Greek

American classical scholar, was born on the 6th of November 1807, in West Newbury, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard College in 1827, having taught school in the winter vacations of his sophomore and junior years. After teaching in the Livingstone high school of Geneseo, New York, for two years, he became tutor at Harvard in 1829, university professor of Greek in 1832, and Eliot professor of Greek literature in 1834. In 1860 he succeeded James Walker as president of Harvard, which position he held until his death, at Chester, Pennsylvania, on the 26th of February 1862. Felton edited many classical texts. His annotations on Wolf's text of the Iliad (1833) are especially valuable. Greece, Ancient and Modern (2 vols., 1867), forty-nine lectures before the Lowell Institute, is scholarly, able and suggestive of the author's personality. Among his miscellaneous publications are the American edition of Sir William Smith's History of Greece (1855); translations of Menzel's German Literature (1840), of Munk's Metres of the Greeks and Romans (1844), and of Guyot's Earth and Man (1849); and Familiar Letters from Europe (1865).

Brother: Samuel Norse Felton (b. 17-Jul-1809)
Brother: John Brooks Felton (b. 1827, d. 3-May-1877)
Son: Cornelius Felton

    Teacher: Round Hill School, Northampton, MA
    University: BA, Harvard University (1827)
    University: MA, Harvard University (1830)
    Teacher: Livingstone High School, Geneseo, NY
    Professor: Greek Literature, Harvard University (1832-62)
    Administrator: President, Harvard University (1860-62)

    Smithsonian Institution Regent

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