Harold F. Cherniss

Harold F. Cherniss

Fellow: Awarded 1942
Field of Study: Classics

Competition: US & Canada

Johns Hopkins University

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1941–42:

CHERNISS, HAROLD FREDRIK.  Appointed for the preparation of the second volume of a work entitled Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato and the Academy; tenure, twelve months from September 1, 1942.

Born March 11, 1904, St. Joseph, Missouri.  Education:  University of California, A.B., 1925, Ph.D., 1929; University of Chicago, Summer, 1926. Traveling Fellow of the University of California at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin, 1927–28.

Associate in Greek, 1928–29, University of California; Instructor in Classics, 1930–33, Cornell University; Associate in Greek, 1932, Lecturer, 1933–36, Associate Professor, 1936—, Johns Hopkins University.

Publications:  The Platonism of Gregory Nyssa, 1930; Aristotle’s Criticism of Presocratic Philosophy, 1935; Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato and the Academy, Vol. I, 1942. Articles and reviews in Classical Philology, American Journal of Philology, California Chronicle, Philosophical Review, Modern Language Notes.

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