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Charles William Super
1842–1939
A classic scholar and educator, he spent decades teaching Greek and leading colleges while also writing books on language, literature, and education. His career linked the worlds of scholarship and public learning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Between Heathenism and Christianity Being a translation of Seneca's De Providentia, and Plutarch's De sera numinis vindicta, together with notes, additional extracts from these writers and two essays on Graeco-Roman life in the first century after Christ.
by Charles William Super, Plutarch, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
About the author
Born near Newport, Pennsylvania, on September 12, 1842, he was educated in local schools, attended the Juniata Valley Normal School, and entered Dickinson College during the Civil War era, graduating in 1866. He later continued his studies in the United States and Germany, building the strong classical background that shaped his long academic career.
He taught Greek and held major college posts, including work at Ohio University, where he served as a professor and later as president. Alongside his teaching and administrative work, he wrote and edited books on topics such as English language, literature, and education, showing a broad interest that reached beyond the classics.
Remembered as both a scholar and a lifelong educator, he belonged to a generation of American academics who helped define college learning in the nineteenth century. He died in 1939, leaving behind a record of service to students, readers, and institutions.