Jeremiah Denis Mathias Ford, Ph.D (1873 – 1958) was a college professor of French and Spanish at Harvard.
He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard (1894; Ph.D, 1897). From 1910 to 1911, he was vice president of the Modern Language Association. Ford also served as president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1931-1933).
He edited Goldoni's Curioso Accidente (1899), Moratín's Se de las niñas (1899), Alarcón's Capitán Veneno (1900), A Spanish Anthology (1901), The Romance of Chivalry in Italian Verse (1904; second edition, 1906), Old Spanish Readings (1906; new enlarged edition, 1911), and Selections from Don Quijote (1908).
He published:
- The Old Spanish Sibilants (1900)
- Exercises in Spanish Composition (1901)
- Spanish Grammar (1904)
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