American romance philologist (1862–1939)
Charles Hall Grandgent (November 14, 1862 – September 11, 1939) was an American romance philologist and Italian scholar.
Life and work.
Charles Hall Grandgent was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on November 14, 1862. He studied at Harvard University and graduated in 1883. He married Ethel Wright Cushing in 1886, and they had five children.
He was a high school teacher at first. From 1896 until 1932 he was Professor in Romanistics at Harvard University. From 1902 until 1911 he was secretary of the Modern Language Association, and in 1912 its president. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1913. In 1923 he became honorary president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian at its foundation. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1929.
He died at his home in Cambridge on September 11, 1939, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
The Dante Society of America confers The Charles Hall Grandgent Award yearly.