Rand, Edward Kennard

Rand, Edward Kennard (1871–1945) classicist, medievalist; born in Boston, Mass. He was educated at Harvard (B.S. 1894) and the University of Munich (Ph.D. 1900), and taught at Harvard (1901–42), where he was Pope professor of Latin (1931–42). He was founder and first president of the Medieval Academy of America (1925), founder and first editor of Speculum, and president of the American Philological Association (1922–23). He published more than 100 articles and the popular and influential Founders of the Middle Ages (1925), one of the first works in English to look seriously at the period of late antiquity.