Dean Putnam Lockwood manuscripts

Dean P. Lockwood (1883-1965), son of Robert Lockwood and Ellen Dean Lockwood, was born in Brazil. The family returned to the U.S. when he was one year old. Lockwood attended a school established by his parents and began to study Latin. Lockwood received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1907, writing his thesis on Rinucci Aretini, “De Vita Operibusque Rinucci Aretini." Lockwood began teaching at Harvard University in 1909, then taught at Columbia University before arriving at Haverford College in 1918. He remained at Haverford until 1952, teaching ancient Latin and Greek as well as medieval and modern Latin, and serving as the college’s Librarian. Lockwood was married to Esther Abercrombie. Lockwood’s magnum opus, published in 1951 by the University of Chicago Press, illustrated late medieval philosophic and clinical medicine through Ugo Benzi, a leading humanist-physician of the 15th century. The book portrayed not only “the living figure of Ugo in his true environment” but also “the physician’s relation to society and of the layman’s attitude to the physician and to medicine.” Lockwood's work on the Ferrara codex, a humanistic “echo of the Council of Ferrara” is related to his work on Ugo Benzi, but was, apparently, not published as a book. His second book was A Survey of Classical Roman Literature in two volumes published in 1934. An ardent book collector, Lockwood owned about 4,000 books and pamphlets on Latin literature alone.