Gildersleeve Professorship in Classics

BASIL LANNEAU GILDERSLEEVE, Hopkins’ first professor of Greek–and the first faculty member appointed at the newly formed university–was twice president of the American Philological Association and founder of The American Journal of Philology, which he edited for 40 years. Dr. Gildersleeve’s 1878 inaugural address for the American Philological Association, titled “University Work in America and Classical Philology,” is regarded as the charter of American classical scholarship.