Ernest Campbell Mossner - Wikipedia Ernest Campbell Mossner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Ernest Campbell Mossner (October 22, 1907 – August 5, 1986) professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and biographer of the Scottish philosopher, essayist and historian, David Hume (1711–1776). He was a specialist also on Hume's friend and contemporary, Adam Smith. Contents 1 Life 2 Books 3 References 4 External links Life[edit] Ernest Campbell Mossner was born on October 22, 1907 in New York City. He received his bachelor's degree in English, Latin and history from City College in 1929, and his master's and PhD degrees in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1930 and 1936. On June 22, 1936 he was married to Alice Carolyn Walz, also of New York. He taught briefly at CCNY, and Columbia before joining the English faculty at Syracuse University in 1937. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939 and in 1945. His scholarship was interrupted during World War II, when he worked for the Bureau of the Budget and served in the U.S. Army. In 1946 Mossner joined the English faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, serving for several years as editor of Texas Studies in Language and Literature. While on a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 1968 he was a visiting professor at Glasgow University, where he would later become a member of a committee established by the University to edit a scholarly edition of the works of Adam Smith. In 1970 he was named Ashbel Smith Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Texas.[1] He retired from teaching in 1972, and in 1976 received the honorary D.Litt. from Edinburgh University. Mossner was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, The Modern Humanities Research Association, The International Association of University Professors of English, The Texas Institute of Letters, the advisory board of the Augustan Reprint Society, the South Central Modern Language Association, the Society of American Historians, and the Fortnightly Club of Austin. David Campbell Mossner, the only child of Ernest and Carolyn, was born on October 2, 1946 and died in Viet Nam on June 1, 1970. Ernest and Carolyn Mossner died together at home in Austin, Texas, on August 5, 1986.[2] Books[edit] Bishop Butler and the Age of Reason, Macmillan, New York 1936. The Forgotten Hume: Le bon David, Columbia, New York 1943. New Letters of David Hume, with R. Klibansky, Oxford 1954. The Life of David Hume, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX 1954; Thomas Nelson & Sons, Edinburgh 1954; Clarendon Press, Oxford 1954, 1970, 1980, 2001. A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume, Penquin Books, New York 1969, 1984. References[edit] ^ "In Memoriam Ernest C. Mossner". University of Texas. Retrieved 30 June 2011. ^ Austin American-Standard, August 6, 1986. External links[edit] Works by or about Ernest Campbell Mossner at Internet Archive Authority control BNE: XX4579954 BNF: cb12100175s (data) GND: 174122004 ISNI: 0000 0001 1637 9009 LCCN: n50006647 NKC: kup19940000067367 NTA: 069584788 PLWABN: 9810600732005606 SNAC: w6dn7nq1 SUDOC: 029358000 VIAF: 49254159 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50006647 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Campbell_Mossner&oldid=957157875" Categories: American academics of English literature Fulbright Scholars Columbia University alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty 1907 births 1986 deaths Hume scholars 20th-century historians 20th-century American writers Hidden categories: Articles with Internet Archive links Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Add links This page was last edited on 17 May 2020, at 10:09 (UTC). 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