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Date of Birth
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20-September-1933
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Place of Birth
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Springfield
(Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States of America, Area code 413)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam
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Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam is an American classicist specializing in Latin literature, but has also studied literature written in many other languages. Putnam has been particularly influential in his publications concerning Virgil's Aeneid. He is the son of politician and businessman Roger Putnam. Putnam received his B.A., M.A., and Ph. D. from Harvard. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1959 he taught at Smith College for a year. He then moved on to teach at Brown University and serving as W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and a professor of comparative literature for 48 years before retiring in 2008. He was awarded the 1970 Rome Prize.
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