{"id":732,"date":"2016-05-31T13:51:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=732"},"modified":"2016-05-31T13:51:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:51:38","slug":"barrett-linton-lomas-1904-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"BARRETT, LINTON LOMAS, 1904-1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Linguist and literary scholar; University professor of Romance languages; diplomat. Born&#8211; September 1, 1904, Lanett. Parents&#8211; Linton Stephens and Carrie Elizabeth (Lomas) Barrett. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Elliott, June, 1928 (died 1932). Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Marie Hamilton McDavid, May 26, 1937. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Mercer University, B.A., 1928; University of Virginia, DuPont fellow, 1930-1931; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1938. Taught at Mercer University, University of Alabama, Furman University, University of North Carolina, Princeton University, University of Kansas, Washington and Lee University, 1948-72;, and Duke University; served as Public Affairs Officer at the American embassies in Bogota, Columbia and Quito, Ecuador; editor of Hispania, 1950-1964. Died March 8, 1972.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5; obituary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barron&#8217;s Simplified Approach to Cervantes&#8217; Don Quixote. Woodbury, N.Y.; Barron, 1971.<\/p>\n<p>A Comparative Study of Six Manuscripts of Juan Perez de Montalban&#8217;s Como Padre y Como Rey. Chapel Hill, N.C.; Estudios de Hispan\u00c2\u00a2fila, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Five Centuries of Spanish Literature, from the Cid Through the Golden Age. New York; Dodd, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>The Supernatural in Spanish Non-Religious Comedia of the Golden Age. Lexington, Ky.; University of Kentucky, 1957.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Mediaeval Italian Anthology. Chapel Hill, N.C.; s.n., 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Linguist and literary scholar; University professor of Romance languages; diplomat. Born&#8211; September 1, 1904, Lanett. Parents&#8211; Linton Stephens and Carrie Elizabeth (Lomas) Barrett. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Elliott, June, 1928 (died 1932). Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Marie Hamilton McDavid, May 26, 1937. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; Mercer University, B.A., 1928; University of Virginia, DuPont fellow, 1930-1931; University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}