Oliphant, Samuel Grant, 1864-1936

Samuel Grant Oliphant (1864-1936) was a classics scholar who served on the faculties of Washington and Jefferson College, Parsons College, and Grove City College. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from Princeton University (1891 and 1894) and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (1904).

Biographical Note: Samuel Grant Oliphant was a Classics scholar and professor of Greek and Sanskrit.

He was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1864 and received the A.B. (1891) and the M.A. (1894) from Princeton. He began his graduate work at The Johns Hopkins University in 1902 where he studied Greek, Latin and Sanskrit. Oliphant received the Ph. D. from Hopkins in 1904, was appointed Fellow, 1904-1906, and Harry E. Johnston Scholar in Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, 1906-1907. In 1911, Oliphant was appointed professor of Greek and Sanskrit at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He was the author of several book on classical literature and philology including "Magic and Folk-lore in Plautus and Terence" (1902) and "Scholia" (1907). Samuel Grant Oliphant died in 1936.