Raymond Weeks

For the English cricket of the same name, see Ray Weeks.

Raymond Weeks (1863–1954) was an American linguist and academic. He was Chair of Romance Languages at the University of Missouri from 1895 to 1908, and later taught at Columbia University in New York City.

Raymond Weeks
Born	January 2, 1863 Tabor, Iowa
Died	1954
Occupation(s)	Academic, scholar
Spouse	Mary Arnoldia

Early life

Raymond Weeks was born on January 2, 1863, in Tabor, Iowa. He was educated at Price High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1890 and a master's degree in 1891.

Career

Weeks taught French at the University of Michigan from 1891 to 1893. He studied in Paris from 1895 to 1897 on a Harvard Traveling Fellowship. In 1895, he was appointed as Chair of Romance Languages at the University of Missouri, where he served until 1908. During that time, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1897. From 1908 to 1909, he was Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Illinois.

Weeks joined the faculty at Columbia University in New York City in 1909. In 1910, he founded, in collaboration with Henry Alfred Todd and other scholars, the Romanic Review, and he became general editor of the "Oxford French Series." He wrote numerous articles in Old French Literature, and was assistant editor on the New Standard Dictionary (1913).

During World War I, he served in the American Field Service in France for six months. He became a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1919.

Personal life

He married Mary Arnoldia in 1885.

Death

He died in 1954.

Bibliography

• Origin of the Covenant Vivien (1902)
• La Chevalerie Vivien, facsimile edition (1909)
• The N.E.A. Phonetic Alphabet (1912), with J. W. Bright and C. H. Grandent
• The Hound-Tuner of Callaway, (1927), By Columbia University Press

External links

• Finding aid to Raymond Weeks papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.