Charles E. Bennett

Charles Edwin Bennett (April 6, 1858 - May 2, 1921) was an American classical scholar and professor of Latin American affairs at Goldwin Smith University of Cornell. He is best remembered for his book, The New Latin Grammar, first published in 1895 and still in print. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Bennett graduated from Brown University in 1878, and studied at Harvard (1881-1882) and in Germany (1882-1884). He taught at secondary schools in Florida (1878-1879), New York (1879-1881) and Nebraska (1885-1889), and in 1889 became a professor of Latin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Classical Philology at Brown University. in 1891 and Latin at Cornell University in 1892. His syntactic studies, in particular various subjunctive articles, are based on a statistical study of Latin texts and are marked by a new nomenclature system; he is considered one of the leaders of the New American School of Syntaxists, who insist on a preliminary review of all available data.