Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: HUMPHREYS, Milton Wylie

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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HUMPHREYS, Milton Wylie, educator: b. Greenbrier county, Va. (now West Virginia),
Sept. 15, 1844.  In 1869 he was graduated from Washington and Lee University,
and in 1874 received the degree of Ph. D. from Leipzig.  In 1862 he entered the
Confederate army and served in the artillery from that date until the close of 
the war.  From 1867-75, with the exception of two years in Germany, he was at
Washington and Lee University as assistant professor of Latin and Greek (1867-70),
and adjunct professor of ancient languages (1870-75).  From 1875-83 he was
professor of Greek in Vanderbilt University, and from 1883-87 he was professor 
of Latin and Greek in the University of Texas.  In 1887 he became professor of 
Greek in the University of Virginia, which position he still holds.  In 1880-82
he was vice-president of the American Philosophical Association, and president
of that organization in 1882-83.  He published editions of The Clouds of
Aristophanes (1885) and The Antigone of Sophocles (1901), and for ten years 
served as American chief editor of Revue des Revues, appended to Revue de Philogie, 
Paris.  Dr. Humphreys is one of the leading classical scholars of the United States.


Source:  The South in the Building of the Nation, Volume XI.  
Richmond, Va.: The Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909.
Volume XI, page 527