Bernadotte Perrin (S&B 1869)
Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa Epsilon.
President of the American Philosophical Association.[2]
He was the editor of Caesar’s Civil War, school edition (1882);
Publications included: - Eight Books of Homer’s Odyssey (w/ T. Seymour) - Plutarch’s Themistocles and Aristides - History - Plutarch’s Nicias and Alcibiades - Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes - Six of Plutarch’s Greek Lives
1898 to 1908 - He served as public orator of the University.[4]
1893 - Western Reserve University conferred the degree of LL D. upon him.[4]
1893 to 1909 - Professor of Greek at Yale University.[4]
In April, 1893, he was appointed professor of Greek at Yale, and served in that capacity until 1909, when he was made Professor Emeritus. He was named the first Lampson professor of the Greek language and literature in 1901, the title being changed in1902 to Lampson professor of Greek literature and history.[4]
Summer 1887, in study and travel abroad, and was in England and Greece from January to September, 1890, devoting part of this time to the study of Greek archaeology. [4]
1881 to 1893 - Professor of Greek at Western Reserve University.[3]
He was appointed tutor in Greek in September of that year, but left New Haven the next fall to become assistant principal of the high school in Hartford. He resigned this position in May, 1876, and went abroad for study, continuing his work in philology at Tubingen, Leipsic, and Berlin until August, 1878, when he again became a tutor at Yale.[4]
1879, he resumed his former position in Hartford, but resigned in 1881 to accept the professor-ship of Greek at Western Reserve College (now Adelbert College, Western Reserve University).[4]
He attended the Yale Divinity School the following year, and was a graduate student in philology at Yale from 1871 to 1873, tutoring in Greek for one term. He was given the degree of Ph D in 1873.
1869 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
In his Sophomore year at Yale he won two first prizes in English composition, receiving a second prize in the same subject in his Senior year. His appointments were a Latin oration in Junior year and a philosophical oration in Senior year. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He spent the first year after graduation teaching in the Hartford Public High School, where he had been prepared for college.[4]
Died 31 Aug 1920, from TBC. Age 72
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 63 / On the page 61
[5] - Wiki - Caesar’s Civil War
[6] - Wiki - Bernadotte Perrin (S&B 1869)
[7] - Yale Uiversity - Bernadotte Perrin (S&B 1869) Papers
[8] - American Philosophical Society.org
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