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George Martin Lane (December 24, 1823 – June 30, 1897) 〔 was an American scholar. ==Life and career== He was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1846 at Harvard, and from 1847 to 1851 studied at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Heidelberg and Göttingen. In 1851 he received his doctor's degree at Göttingen for his dissertation ''Smyrnaeorum Res Gestae et Antiquitates'', and on his return to America he was appointed University Professor of Latin in Harvard College.〔 From 1869 until 1894, when he resigned and became professor emeritus, he was Pope Professor of Latin in the same institution.〔 His ''Latin Pronunciation'', which led to the rejection of the English method of Latin pronunciation in the United States, was published in 1871. His ''Latin Grammar'', completed and published by Professor Morris H. Morgan in the following year, is of high value. Lane's assistance in the preparation of Harper's Latin lexicons was also invaluable. He wrote English light verse with humor and fluency, and two of his efforts ''Jonah'' or ''In the Black Whale at Ascalon'' and ''the Ballad of the Lone Fish Ball'' became famous as songs after being set to music. Upon Lane's retirement in 1894, Harvard granted him an honorary degree as well as the first pension it had ever granted a faculty member; which, according to Lane, was enough to support him for the rest of his life.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Martin Lane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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