William Henry Carpenter (philologist)
- William Henry Carpenter (philologist)
William Henry Carpenter, Ph. D. (1853, Utica, N. Y.-1936) was an American philologist.
He was educated at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Leipzig, and Freiburg universities. He became the provost of Columbia University and was chosen vice-president of the Germanistic Society of America. His publications include:
* "Grundriss der neuisländischen Grammatik" (1881)
* "Nikolasdrapa Halls Prest, An Icelandic Poem from A. D. 1400" (1881)
* "Some Conditions of American Education" (1911)
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