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Charles Henry Beeson (1870–1949) was an American classical scholar. His book A Primer of Medieval Latin: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry (1925) has remained one of the leading texts for learning post-classical Latin. In addition, he was an active researcher and reviewer, especially for the journal Classical Philology. In 1935, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1940.[2]

Biography

Beeson was born in Columbia City, Indiana. In 1893, he received his A.B. in classics from Indiana University.[3] In 1895, he received his A.M. from Indiana. In 1907, he received his Ph.D. from Munich University.[4] While at Indiana University he assisted Carl H. Eigenmann in studies of the fishes of Indiana, and elsewhere, and was the coauthor of a few ichthyological papers, including the Fishes of Indiana,[5] Preliminary note on the relationship of the species usually united under the generic name Sebastodes [6] and Pteropodus dallii sp. nov.[7]

During World War I, he worked in the Military Intelligence Division (MID) Cryptography Department (MI-8).[8]

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References

  1. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
  3. ^ "Indiana University Register of Graduates - Illinois Residents". Illinois Genealogy Trails. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
  4. ^ Bowman, John Stewart (1995). Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521402583.
  5. ^ Shelby D. Gerking (1956). "A History of the Study of Fishes in Indiana". Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Sciences. 66: 275–285.
  6. ^ Carl H. Eigenmann and Charles H. Beeson (1893). "Preliminary note on the relationship of the species usually united under the generic name Sebastodes". American Naturalist. 27 (319): 668–671. JSTOR 2452003.
  7. ^ Carl H. Eigenmann and Charles H. Beeson (1894). "Pteropodus dallii sp. nov". American Naturalist. 28 (325): 66. JSTOR 2451817.
  8. ^ Kahn, David (1996). The Codebreakers: the Story of Secret Writing. New York: Scribner. p. 352. ISBN 0-684-83130-9.

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