Albert Harkness


Albert Harkness was an American classical scholar and educator. He was professor of Greek at Brown University, and helped found the American Philological Association and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Harkness was born in Mendon, Massachusetts and attended Uxbridge High School and Worcester Academy. He graduated from Brown University in 1842. He was senior master of Providence High School from 18461853, and pursued studies in Germany at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, and Gttingen. Harkness was the first American to obtain a degree from Bonn .

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