How to Pronounce Michael C. J. Putnam
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Sep 20, 1933 Springfield, Massachusetts, United States 90 years old
American classical philologist
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About Michael C. J. Putnam
- Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam (born September 20, 1933) is an American classicist specializing in Latin literature, but has also studied literature written in many other languages.
- Putnam has been particularly influential in his publications concerning Virgil's Aeneid.
- He is the son of politician and businessman Roger Putnam.
- Putnam received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.
- D.
- from Harvard.
- After receiving his Ph.D.
- in 1959 he taught at Smith College for a year.
- He then moved on to teach at Brown University and serving as W.
- Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and a professor of comparative literature for 48 years before retiring in 2008.
- He was awarded the 1970 Rome Prize. He served as sole trustee of Lowell Observatory from 1967 to 1987.
- Asteroid 2557 Putnam was named in his and his fathers honor.
- The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 (M.P.C.
- 6835).
