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Edward Kennard Rand
1871–1945
A leading American scholar of Latin and the Middle Ages, he spent more than four decades teaching at Harvard and helped shape how generations of readers understood the survival of Roman culture. His books brought medieval learning to life with unusual clarity and enthusiasm.
2 Audiobooks
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York
by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe, Edward Kennard Rand
The Supposed Autographa of John the Scot
by Edward Kennard Rand
About the author
Born in South Boston on December 20, 1871, Edward Kennard Rand became an American classicist and medievalist known widely as E.K. Rand. He served as Pope Professor of Latin at Harvard University from 1901 until 1942, and he was also invited to serve as Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Rand is best remembered for his work on Latin literature, medieval manuscripts, and the continuity between the ancient and medieval worlds. He also helped found the Mediaeval Academy of America, and his writing introduced many readers to subjects that could otherwise feel distant or forbidding.
He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 28, 1945. Today he is remembered as a warm, influential teacher and a major figure in twentieth-century classical and medieval studies.