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Edmund Dresser Cressman
1889–1958
A classicist and scholar of Latin, he taught at the University of Denver and contributed to early twentieth-century academic studies in language and literature. His surviving published work points to a careful, research-driven mind with a strong interest in the details of classical grammar and meaning.
1 Audiobook
Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1
by De Witt Clinton Croissant, Edmund Dresser Cressman, Pearl Hogrefe, Arthur Mitchell
About the author
Born in 1889 and dying in 1958, Edmund Dresser Cressman belonged to the world of early twentieth-century scholarship. Records of his published work connect him with the University of Kansas, where his study The Semantics of -mentum, -bulum, and -culum appeared in 1915, showing his focus on Latin language and philology.
Cressman also appears in University of Denver yearbook records as a Professor of Latin and Greek, placing him in the classroom as well as in print. He is also listed among the contributors to Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1, suggesting a wider role in the humanistic academic culture of his time.
Although little easily verifiable biographical detail survives online, the outline is clear: he was a teacher and classical scholar whose work centered on close reading, language, and the traditions of Greek and Latin study. For listeners drawn to older academic writing, his work offers a glimpse of a period when classical scholarship was built line by line, word by word.