Jeremiah D. M. Ford

Jeremiah Denis Mathias Ford, Ph.D (1873 – 1958) was a college professor of French and Spanish at Harvard.

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard (1894; Ph.D, 1897). From 1910 to 1911, he was vice president of the Modern Language Association. Ford also served as president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1931-1933).

He edited Goldoni's "Curioso Accidente" (1899), Moratín's "Se de las nias" (1899), Alarcón's "Capitn Veneno" (1900), "A Spanish Anthology" (1901), "The Romance of Chivalry in Italian Verse" (1904; second edition, 1906), "Old Spanish Readings" (1906; new enlarged edition, 1911), and "Selections from Don Quijote" (1908).

He published:
* "The Old Spanish Sibilants" (1900)
* "Exercises in Spanish Composition" (1901)
* "Spanish Grammar" (1904)

References

* [http://www.amacad.org/about/presidents.aspx] Past Academy Presidents, American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Further reading

*Holmes, Urban T. "Mediaeval studies in honor of Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, Smith professor of French and Spanish literature, emeritus", Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. (OCLC: 1671602)