Frederic de Forest Allen
Born	May 25, 1844  Oberlin
Died	August 4, 1897  (aged 53) Cambridge
Alma mater	Oberlin College
Occupation	Observer
Employer	Harvard University University of Cincinnati University of Tennessee Yale University

Frederic de Forest Allen (1844–1897) was an American classical scholar.

Frederick Forest Allen was born in 1844 inOberlin, Ohio. He graduated atOberlin College in 1863.^[1]

Allen taught Greek and Latin at theUniversity of Tennessee from 1866 to 1868.^[1] He attended theUniversity of Leipzig in Germany from 1868 to 1870, where his thesis supervisor wasGeorg Curtius.^[1] He earned hisPh.D. there with his thesisDe Dialecto Locrensium.^[2]

Allen was Professor of Foreign Languages at theUniversity of Cincinnati, and atYale College. He held the chair of classical philology atHarvard for the last seventeen years of his life.^[3]

He died in 1897 inCambridge, Massachusetts.^[3]

• Remnants of Early Latin (1880)
• A revision of Hadley'sA Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges (1884)
• Greek Versification in Inscriptions (1888)
• Æschylus: The Prometheus Bound and the Fragments of the Prometheus Unbound (1897)

• Frederic de Forest Allen at the Database of Classical Scholars, author:Meyer Reinhold

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