Roland Grubb Kent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRoland Grubb Kent
American linguist; founder of the Linguistic Society of America
Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1877
Place of Birth: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Date of Death: 27-Jun-1952
Profession: linguist, classical philologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Roland Grubb Kent
- Roland Grubb Kent (February 24, 1877 – June 27, 1952) was an American educator and a founder of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
- He was the first person to translate Marcus Terentius Varro's De Lingua Latina into English.
- Ken's 1903 doctoral thesis on the history of Thessaly traces the history of the country with particular attention to the times between 600 and 300 BC.
- Unfortunately, only Chapter V and two appendices were published, and the bulk of his dissertation is currently lost.
- His Old Persian: Grammar, Texts, Lexicon is one of the seminal works on the subject.
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