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Tristram Potter Coffin (February 13, 1922 – January 31, 2012) was an American folklorist and leading scholar of ballad texts in the 20th century.〔Fox, Margalit, "(Tristram P. Coffin, Folklorist, Dies at 89 )", nytimes.com, February 14, 2012; accessed January 28, 2015.〕 Coffin spent the bulk of his career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor of English and a co-founder of the (Folklore Department ). He is the author of 20 books and more than 100 scholarly articles and reviews.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tristram Potter Coffin profile )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tristram Potter Coffin )〕 ==Biography== Coffin was born February 13, 1922 in San Marino, California to Tristram Roberts Coffin and Elsie Potter Robinson Coffin. He had three siblings. In 1927, after the death of T.R. Coffin, the family moved to Rhode Island, where T.P. Coffin attended Providence Country Day School, Moses Brown School ('39), and Haverford College ('43). After three years in the old United States Army Air Corps and the Signal Corps during World War II, he took an MA and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Through his father, he is a direct descendant of Tristram Coffin, one of the original permanent settlers on Nantucket Island in 1660. He married Ruth Anne Hendrickson (May 28, 1922 — August 5, 2011); the couple had four children, eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 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「Tristram P. Coffin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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