CORNELIUS CONWAY FELTON
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An American scholar and writer; born in Newbury, Mass., Nov. 6, 1807; died in Chester, Pa., Feb. 26, 1862. In 1834 he became professor of Greek literature at Harvard; in 1860 its president. His publications include many translations from German, French, and Greek, of which "The Clouds" and "The Birds" of Aristophanes are the most distinguished; also "Familiar Letters from Europe" (1864); "Greece, Ancient and Modern" (1867); "Selections from Modern Greek Writers"; etc.
By Charles Dudley Warner
