Carleton Lewis Brownson

Carleton Lewis Brownson (January 19, 1866 – September 27, 1948) was a professor of the Greek language and Latin language and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at City College of New York.

Xenophon's Anabasis, translated by Carleton Lewis Brownson^[1]

Biography

He was born on January 19, 1866, in Connecticut and he received an A.B. from Yale College in 1887. He traveled to Athens, Greece and became a student member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1890 to 1892. In December of 1893, he married Miss Potter according to a personal letter by Clarinda Boltwood of New Haven Ct. In 1897 he received his Ph.D. from Yale University, and was offered a teaching position at City College of New York.^[2] By 1909 he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts at City College of New York till 1926 when he was promoted to Dean of the Faculty.^[3] He died in 1948 in New York City.^[4]