Michael C. J. Putnam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael C. J. Putnam

American classical philologist

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1933

Place of Birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam (born September 20, 1933) 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. He served as sole trustee of Lowell Observatory from 1967 to 1987.
Asteroid 2557 Putnam was named in his and his fathers honor.
The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 (M.P.C.
6835).