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Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
1858–1921
Remembered as a gifted Latin scholar and teacher, he helped generations of students through clear, practical grammar books that stayed in use long after his lifetime. At Cornell University, he built a strong reputation for both serious scholarship and memorable classroom teaching.
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New Latin Grammar
by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
About the author
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1858, Charles Edwin Bennett became one of the leading American classicists of his era. He graduated from Brown University in 1878, continued his studies at Harvard, and also studied in Germany before going on to a long academic career.
Bennett is best known as a professor of Latin at Cornell University, where he served as the Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin. He was especially admired for making Latin grammar clear and usable, and his New Latin Grammar, first published in 1895, remained widely known well beyond his own time.
He died in Ithaca, New York, in 1921. Memorial writings by colleagues and former students describe him as a deeply respected scholar and teacher whose influence reached from university classrooms to Latin study more broadly.