Walter Woodburn Hyde Papers
These materials, spanning 1895 to 1940, are from Walter Woodburn Hyde, noted academic, historian and archaeologist from New York. The items include newspaper clippings, a personal notebook, notes, photos, a letter, menu, pages from a book, index card, and bulletins and postcards from the travels of Hyde around United States and European universities and historical sites.
Dates
- 1895 September 25-1940 February
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
These materials, spanning 1895 to 1940, are from Walter Woodburn Hyde, noted academic, historian and archaeologist from New York. The items include newspaper clippings, a personal notebook, notes, photos, a letter, menu, pages from a book, index card, and bulletins and postcards from the travels of Hyde around United States and European universities and historical sites.
Biographical/Historical Note
Walter Woodburn Hyde was an American born scholar of ancient Rome and Greece who studied and taught around the United States as well as Europe. Born in Ithaca, New York on May 4, 1870, he attended Cornell University, studying ancient history until 1893. He taught at Westerly High School in Massachusetts, studied at the American School of Classic Studies in Athens, then in Rome. Eventually obtaining his doctorate in Europe, he taught as Professor of Latin at the University of Tennessee, Greek at Cornell then Greek and Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania until retiring in 1940. He died on February 15, 1966 in Philadelphia.
Arrangement
This collection is in one folder.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository