History of Berlin, (Green Lake County) Wisconsin United States of America

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Richard Jones, educator, was born in Berlin, Wis., July 18, 1855; son of the Rev. John A. and Ann (Davies) Jones. He attended Grinnell academy, Iowa, and was graduated from Iowa college, A.B., 1878, A.M., 1881. He was married, Dec. 28, 1881, to Carrie Holmes, daughter of the Hon. John B. Grinnell, of Iowa. He was principal of the Guthrie County high school, Panora, Iowa, 1879-83; and of the West Des Moines high school, Iowa, 1883-86. He travelled and studied, 1886-87; was professor of literature in the Illinois State Normal university, 1887-91; travelled in Europe and studied at Oxford, Munich, and Heidelberg, 1891-94, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in 1893; was professor of literature at Swarthmore college, Pa., 1894-96; inspector of literature for the University of the State of New York, 1896-98; professor of literature at the Syracuse university, 1898-99, and accepted the chair of literature at Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn., in 1899. He was interested in the pedagogical features of the teaching of literature and the discipline derived from its study, and made several trips abroad, visiting most of the universities of Germany in order to learn their purpose and method in the teaching of German literature. He was elected in 1894 a member of the Goethe-Gesellschaft, Weimar, Germany, and of the English Goethe society, London. He is the author of: The Growth of the Idylls of the King (1895); The Arthurian Legends (1896); College-Entrance English (1897); edited Macbeth, Julius Caesar and other Shakespearean plays and contributed articles to American, English, and German magazines.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Berlin, (Green Lake County) Wisconsin

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