Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924
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Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0005
Abstract
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (October 23, 1831 – January 9, 1924), was a "classicist and Confederate apologist" (David Lupher and Elizabeth Vandiver, "Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition," 320), and one of the first faculty members hired at the founding of Johns Hopkins University in 1876. This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, biographic data, diaries, notes, notebooks, drafts, published and unpublished...
Dates:
1820-1953; Majority of material found in 1847-1924
Found in:
Special Collections
Correspondence regarding the Didache manuscript
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030055762]
Identifier: MS-0287
Abstract
The collection consists of correspondence between Daniel Coit Gilman, Basil Gildersleeve, Nicholas Murray Butler and others regarding obtaining a copy of the Didache manuscript.
Dates:
1885-1888
Found in:
Special Collections
Daniel Coit Gilman papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0001
Scope and Contents note
The papers document Gilman's wide-ranging interests especially his travels in Europe and work as attaché in St. Petersburg (1854-1855), his years (1855-1858) at Yale, and his presidencies of the University of California (1872-1875) and the Johns Hopkins University (1876-1902)Gilman's correspondence contains a number of letters from prominent, contemporary educators, scientists, politicians, and literary figures. The collection includes a large number of photographs of Gilman's...
Dates:
1773-1942
Found in:
Special Collections
Department of Classics records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-04-040
Scope and Contents
The records of the Department of Classics span the years 1878 to 1892 and 1930 to 1995. The earliest segment comprises the minutes of the Greek Seminary, bound in two volumes. The later records include correspondence of Dr. John H. Young, a member of the department from 1948 until his death in 1977; and correspondence of the editors of the American Journal of Philology. Also present are newsletters for alumni of the Departments of Greek, Latin and Indology, and two folders which concern...
Dates:
1878-1892
Found in:
Special Collections
Ernest Gottlieb Sihler papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030051696]
Identifier: MS-0184
Scope and Contents
The colletion consists of one bound volume of student notes in Greek literature and oratory prepared by Ernest G. Sihler while he was a graduate student at Hopkins, 1876-1878.
Dates:
1876-1878
Found in:
Special Collections
Frank Johnson Goodnow papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0003
Abstract
Frank Johnson Goodnow, Ph.D., LL.B. (January 18, 1859 – November 15, 1939), President of Johns Hopkins University, was an American educator and legal scholar, born in Brooklyn, New York. The collection consists of about 12,000 items and spans the years 1880 to 1940. The majority of the material is Goodnow's correspondence, but there are also lectures, addresses, writings and printed material.
Dates:
1880-1940
Found in:
Special Collections
Hermann Collitz papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0014
Abstract
Hermann Collitz he accepted the newly established chair in Germanic Philology at Johns Hopkins University in 1907. The papers span the period 1846-1935 and consist of correspondence; photographs; newspaper clippings; course outlines and examinations; committee minutes and reports; reprints, dissertations and public lectures of other authors collected by Collitz; drafts, typescripts and reprints of articles by Collitz; notes and notebooks; research notes; lectures and articles. A considerable...
Dates:
1846-1935
Found in:
Special Collections
Johns Hopkins University Joseph Sweetman Ames collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0061
Abstract
Joseph Sweetman Ames became Director of the Physical Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in 1901. He taught until becoming provost of the University in 1926 and president from 1929 to 1935. This collection largely consists of speeches and lectures given at Johns Hopkins, but also includes correspondence, photographs, reprints, and biographical information.
Dates:
1888-1968
Found in:
Special Collections
Johns Hopkins University Papyri collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0383
Abstract
The collection consists of 70 papyrus fragments collected 1901-1907 and 1921, from Oxyrhynchus and Fayum. The papyri are legal and business documents and fragments of Homer's "Illiad" and Odyssey." Each fragment is preserved between glass and has been photographed.
Dates:
1st to 6th century
Found in:
Special Collections
Johns Hopkins University Philological Association records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-15-010
Abstract
On May 31, 1877, at the behest of President Daniel Coit Gilman, Basil Gildersleeve, the first full professor of the Johns Hopkins University, organized the Johns Hopkins Philological Association, for the purpose of "that mutual and informal interchange of opinion ... which is so confessedly essential to the development of the true scholar." The records of the Johns Hopkins Philological Association consist of five bound volumes documenting early seminars and meetings of the department, as...
Dates:
1877-1995
Found in:
Special Collections
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