Henry Herbert Armstrong

Henry Herbert Armstrong (December 24, 1879 – November 15, 1935) was an American classicist and professor. He taught at Juniata College, Whitworth College, Yankton College, Princeton University, Oberlin College, Drury College, and Beloit College.[1][2] He won the Rome Prize in 1903 and was a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.[3]

Life and career

Armstrong was born on December 24, 1879 in Waterloo, Indiana.[1] He attended high school in Jackson, Michigan.[1]

He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in 1901 and an MA in 1902. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a PhD in 1905. He taught at Juniata College in 1905–6; Whitworth College, Tacoma, Washington in 1906–8 and Yankton College, South Dakota in 1908–9. He joined Princeton University in 1910–11 and moved to Oberlin college in 1911–14 and Drury College, Springfield, Missouri in 1914–19. He spent the final two decades of his professorial career at Beloit College (1918–35).[4]

Armstrong was head of the department of Romance languages at Beloit College.[1] He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Modern Language Association.[1] He attended the twenty-fifth jubilee of Pope Leo XIII in Vatican City.[5]

He received a prize in classical studies and archaeology from the American Academy in Rome in 1903.[6] He was named a Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome.[3]

In 1910, he published Autobiographic Elements in Latin Inscriptions.[7][8] In 1910, he also published Inscriptions from Privernum in the American Journal of Archaeology.[9] The text was republished by Gorgias Press in 2009.[10]

Armstrong died on November 15, 1935.[11][12]

Bibliography

  • Autobiographic Elements in Latin Inscriptions (1910)[7][8]
  • Inscriptions from Privernum (1910)[9]
  • Privernum (1911)[13]
  • Privernum: I. The Volscian City (1911)[14]
  • Privernum: II. The Roman City (1911)[14][15]
  • Privernum: III. Roman Remains in the Territory of the Roman Colony (1911)[14]
  • Topographical Studies at Setia (1915)[16][17]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "H. H. Armstrong". The Beloit College Bulletin - Alumni Issue. January 13, 1936.
  2. ^ https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1438&context=alumnimagazine
  3. ^ a b "All Fellows". American Academy in Rome.
  4. ^ University of Michigan Archives
  5. ^ "Silver Jubilee of the Pope | Ann Arbor District Library".
  6. ^ The centennial directory of the American Academy in Rome
  7. ^ a b S. R. (1911). "Reviewed work: Autobiographic elements in Latin inscriptions. University of Michigan Studies, t. III, Henry Armstrong". Revue Archéologique. 17: 364. JSTOR 41021784.
  8. ^ a b W. H. D. R. (1911). "Human Life in Latin Inscriptions". The Classical Review. 25 (4): 123–124. JSTOR 694415.
  9. ^ a b Armstrong, Henry H. (1910). "Inscriptions from Privernum". American Journal of Archaeology. 14 (3): 318–323. doi:10.2307/497132. JSTOR 497132.
  10. ^ "Inscriptions from Privernum".
  11. ^ https://www.newspapers.com/image/70028215/
  12. ^ https://www.newspapers.com/image/161433101/
  13. ^ Armstrong, Henry H. (1911). "Privernum". American Journal of Archaeology. 15 (1): 44–59. doi:10.2307/497245. JSTOR 497245.
  14. ^ a b c https://www.ajaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/1911/10/015_Index.pdf
  15. ^ Armstrong, Henry H. (1911). "Privernum: II. The Roman City". American Journal of Archaeology. 15 (2): 170–194. doi:10.2307/497213. JSTOR 497213.
  16. ^ Armstrong, Henry H. (1915). "Topographical Studies at Setia". American Journal of Archaeology. 19 (1): 34–56. doi:10.2307/497262. JSTOR 497262.
  17. ^ "Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association Held at Princeton, N. J., December, 1915. Also of the July and November Meetings of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast Held Respectively at Berkeley and San Francisco, California 1915". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 46: i–lxxxii. 1915. doi:10.2307/282945. JSTOR 282945.