Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
1831–1924
American philologist, author, and editor. Studied at Princeton and in Germany. Professor of Greek, University of Virginia, 1856; also professor of Latin, 1861–6. Served in the Confederate army during university vacations from 1861; severely wounded in 1864. Professor of Greek, Johns Hopkins University, 1876–1915. Founder and editor of the American Journal of Philology, 1880–1920.
Source
DAB
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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