Word: lexicon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Professor W. M. Davis has contributed valuable articles on meteorology and physical geography in the American Naturalist, Science, and the American Journal of Science. Professor Joseph H. Thayer has done some extremely important work on philology. The Harpers have published for him a Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament. This is based on Grimm's Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti, which he has translated, revised and enlarged. This book appeared simultaneously in New York and London. By a vote of the president and fellows, Professor Thayer was authorized to undertake the supervision of the memorial...
...Latin lexicon, containing the history of every word in the language beginning with the earliest records and including the ecclesiastical writings of the Middle Ages is being prepared by several noted scholars headed by Herr Wofflin of Munich. It is expected that this tremendous work cannot be completed in less that twenty years...
Professor Richardson, of Amherst, has just completed a handbook of German words, arranged in families. It is intended to enable the student to dispense, for the most part, with a lexicon...
...must occupy a place with the glossaries of Ducange and Charpentier." In 1860 he received the appointment to the professorship of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek which he held until his death. He again visited Greece in 1860. In 1870 he got out a subscription edition of his 'Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods.' It is a work of authority still in use, and many inquiries for it in recent years have been referred to the list of subscribers in the hope that thus might be discovered a copy left, perhaps by death, unused and uncherished. A continuation...
...tutor in Greek at Harvard for a number of years, then became assistant professor, and in 1860 was appointed to the full professorship of ancient, Byzantine and modern Greek. He was the author of a large number of books on the Greek language, his principle work being a "Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods" Professor Sophocles was a very learned scholar and a most successful teacher...