Albert Harkness

Albert Harkness (1822–1907) was an American classical scholar and educator, born at Mendon, Massachusetts He graduated at Brown University in 1842, was senior master of the Providence High School from 1846 to 1853, pursued studies in Germany at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, and Göttingen, and was the first American to obtain a degree from Bonn (Ph.D., 1854). In 1855 he was appointed professor of Greek in Brown University. He visited Europe in 1870 and 1883 and there investigated educational questions, in particular the methods of German and English universities. He assisted in founding the American Philological Association, of which he was a first vice president in 1869-70 and president in 1875-76. As a member of the Archæological...