Lancaster, Henry Carrington, 1882-1954

Biographical Note: Henry Carrington Lancaster was Professor of French Literature, The Johns Hopkins University.

He was born in 1882 in Richmond, VA and studied at the University of Virginia, later receiving his Ph. D. from Hopkins in 1907. Lancaster taught at Amherst before returning to Hopkins as Professor of French Literature in 1919 and was later appointed chairman of the Romance Languages Department. Because of his studies of French drama, literature, and history, Lancaster received an honorary degree from the Sorbonne in 1946 and was later accorded the rank of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government. Lancaster's monumental work was published in nine volumes, "A History of French Dramatic Literature in the 17th Century" (1929). Henry Carrington Lancaster died in Baltimore in 1954.

From the description of Henry Carrington Lancaster papers, 1919-1953. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 48394082