Resource: Kirby Flower Smith papers | Johns Hopkins University Libraries Archives Public Interface

Kirby Flower Smith (1862-1918) was professor of Latin at Johns Hopkins University from 1889 until his death in 1918, and published several books on the Roman elegiac poets. The collection consists of reprints, typed transcripts, and thirty notebooks of notes for lectures and articles dating from 1892-1916.

Dates

1892-1916

Creator

Smith, Kirby Flower, 1862-1918 (Person)

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Extent

1.79 Cubic Feet (1 letter size document box, 3 legal size document boxes)

Additional Description

Biographical Note

Kirby Flower Smith was professor of Latin at Johns Hopkins University. He was born in 1862, and received the A.B. degree from the University of Vermont in 1884, and the Ph.D. in Latin from JHU in 1889.

He taught at Hopkins from 1889 until his death in 1918, and published several books on the Roman elegiac poets.