Sonnenschein, Edward Adolf (1851–1929)

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Edward Adolf Sonnenschein was born in London in 1851. He studied at London and Oxford Universities, graduating in classics in 1875. In 1883 he was appointed Professor at Mason College (later to become the university of) Birmingham. Sonnenschein is important both in the history of classical philology and for the part he played in national and international campaigns to simplify and harmonize grammatical terminology. From 1886 to 1899 he edited the ‘Parallel Grammar Series’ (over 25 volumes in eight languages), and from 1909 to 1911 he was secretary to the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology (Report, 1911). Sonnenschein wrote grammars of Greek, Latin and English. He died in Bath in 1929.