Frank , Tenney , 1876-1939 , classical scholar and ancient historian

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Frank , Tenney , 1876-1939 , classical scholar and ancient historian

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Tenney Frank was born in Kansas in 1876. He was educated at the University of Kansas and the University of Chicago, receiving his PhD from the latter in 1903. He was Professor of Latin for many years at Bryn Mawr College and subsequently Johns Hopkins University. Frank's research into Roman history and classical literature was influential. He died in Oxford, England in 1939.