William Abbott Oldfather
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William Abbott Oldfather (1880-1945) was an American classical scholar.
He was born in Urumiah, Persia (now Urmia, Iran) to missionary parents, Jeremiah Oldfather and Felicia (nee Rice). The classical scholar C. H. Oldfather (1887-?) was his younger brother [1]; he was noted for many translations, and they sometimes worked together. (C. H. is variously given as Charles Harvey or Henry.)
He was awarded a doctorate by the University of Munich, in 1908.
He was on the faculty of the University of Illinois from 1909, where he remained for the rest of his life.
[edit] Works
- Ysopet-Avionnet: The Latin and French Texts (1919) with Kenneth McKenzie
- Epictetus (1925) translator
- Contributions Toward a Bibliography of Epictetus (1927)
- Index Apvleianvs (1934)
- Index verborum Ciceronis Epistularum (1938) with H. V. Canter and K. M. Abbott
- Studies in the text tradition of St. Jerome's Vitae patrum (1943) editor
