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Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
American classical philologist (1831–1924)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 October 1831, 1831
- Died
- 9 January 1924, 1924
- Place of birth
- Charleston
- Place of death
- Baltimore
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Basil
- Family name
- Gildersleeve
- Father
- Benjamin Gildersleeve
- Field of work
- classics
- Occupation
- linguist, classical philologist, writer
- Position held
- President of the Society for Classical Studies, President of the Society for Classical Studies
- Citizenship
- United States
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Encyclopedia Americana, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, New International Encyclopedia
- educated at
- Princeton University, University of Bonn
- employer
- Johns Hopkins University
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, Society for Classical Studies, Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- military branch
- Confederate States Army
- notable work
- American Journal of Philology
- place of burial
- University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium
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- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau
- The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau
- Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau
- The New International Encyclopædia/Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau
- Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau (1831-1924), classicist and founding editor of the American Journal of Philology
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