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Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
1858–1921
Best known for making Latin grammar clearer for generations of students, this American scholar taught at Cornell and wrote reference works that stayed useful long after his lifetime. His books combine classroom practicality with deep learning.
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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 best-known American teachers of Latin of his era. He studied at Brown University, later continued his training at Harvard and at several German universities, and built his career as a teacher and scholar of classical languages.
Bennett taught in secondary schools before joining the University of Wisconsin and later Cornell University, where he served as professor of Latin. He is especially remembered for New Latin Grammar, first published in 1895, along with other textbooks, editions, and scholarly works that helped shape the teaching of Latin in the United States.
He died in Ithaca, New York, in 1921. Though he wrote for students as much as for specialists, his reputation rested on both careful scholarship and a gift for explaining difficult material in a straightforward way.