W . Swan Sonnenschein & Allen
Who did Edward Adolf Sonnenschein work for from 1878 to 1881?
Edward Adolf Sonnenschein Edward Adolf Sonnenschein ( 20 November 1851 – 2 September 1929 , Bath ) was an English classical scholar and writer on Latin grammar and verse . Career . Sonnenschein was educated at University College School and then in 1868 at University College London . He was appointed Oxford professor of Greek and Latin at Mason College ( afterwards the University of Birmingham ) in 1883 , staying there until 1918 . He was a Plautine scholar , publishing editions of Captivi ( 1879 ) , Mostellaria ( 1884 ) , and Rudens ( 1891 ) . He took up the reform of grammar teaching , and published the Parallel Grammar series . With John Percival Postgate , he founded the Classical Association in 1903 . Much of his grammatical research was summed up in The Unity of the Latin Subjunctive ( 1910 ) and The Soul of Grammar ( 1927 ) . He insisted upon the humanities taking their proper place in the modern university , and took up the question of war-guilt during the European war ; he was a very exact scholar . Family . Sonnenschein was born in London in 1851 , the eldest son of a teacher , Adolphus ( Adolf ) Sonnenschein from Moravia ( now part of the Czech Republic ) and Sarah Robinson Stallybrass . Edward Adolf Sonnenschein married Edith Annesley Bolton ( 1854–1943 ) and they had three children : Edward Jamie , who later took the surname Somerset ; Christopher Edward , who was killed in a mountaineering accident in Switzerland on 22 February 1914 ; and Edward Oliver , who survived the sinking of HMS Pathfinder in 1914 , and later took his grandmothers surname Stallybrass . ( Because of the hostility to Germans during the First World War , two of his sons changed their surnames to English names. ) Swan Sonnenschein , publishers . William Swan Sonnenschein ( 1855–1934 ) , Adolfus Sonnenscheins third son and Edwards younger brother , founded the family publishing firm that was to become known as Swan Sonnenschein . As a young man William was apprenticed to the firm of Williams and Norgate , where he gained experience of second hand bookselling before founding his own company , W . Swan Sonnenschein & Allen , with the first of several partners , J . Archibald Allen , in 1878 . This partnership was dissolved in 1882 when William married and the firms name changed to W Swan Sonnenschein & Co . The firm published general literature and periodicals but specialized in sociology and politics . Sonnenschein was involved with the Ethical Society and published their literature . In 1895 Swan Sonnenschein became a limited liability company , and in 1902 William Swan Sonnenschein left to work at George Routledge and Sons , and later at Kegan Paul . Swan Sonnenschein was amalgamated with George Allen & Co in 1911 . He changed his German surname during the First World War to Stallybrass . He died in 1934 . Academic life and work . Sonnenschein was an influential classical scholar during his time at Mason College between 1883 and 1918 , where he wrote prolifically . He edited several plays by Plautus , and collaborated with John Percival Postgate , forming the Classical Association in 1903 , becoming its Secretary . He contributed to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ( designated by the initials E . A . So. ) . His views differed from Otto Jespersen ( 1860–1943 ) a Danish linguist , which he explained in his 1927 book , The Soul of Grammar , as his answer to Jespersens 1924 Philosophy of Grammar . C . T . Onions , the last editor of the original Oxford English Dictionary , was one of his pupils . Works . - T . Macci Plavti Rvdens by Titus Maccius Plautus , 38 editions between 1891 and 1989 . - Mostellaria by Titus Maccius Plautus , 23 editions between 1884 and 1970 . - The Soul of Grammar , 5 editions between 1927 and 1929 . - A new English Grammar based on the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology , 17 editions between 1916 and 1962 . - Through German Eyes , 11 editions between 1914 and 1915 . - T . Macci Plauti Captivi by Titus Maccius Plautus , 30 editions between 1879 and 1903 . - Bentleys Plautine emendations from his copy of Gronovius by Richard Bentley , 6 editions between 1883 and 1963 . - A New Latin Grammar : based on the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology , 11 editions between 1912 and 1925 . - A Greek Grammar for Schools ; based on the principles and requirements of the Grammatical Society , 18 editions between 1898 and 1929 . - The Unity of the Latin Subjunctive : a quest . Being a paper read in abstract before the Classical Association , 2 editions in 1910 . - Ora Maritima ; a Latin story for beginners , 10 editions between 1902 and 1927 . - Recommendations of the Classical Association on the teaching of Latin and Greek , 2 editions in 1912 . - What is Rhythm ? An essay , 2 editions in 1925 . - The Gateway ; a book of Latin composition for middle forms , 4 editions in 1924 . Sources . - The Oxford Concise Dictionary of National Biography : Sonnenschein , Edward Adolf ( 1851-1929 ) . - Sonnenschein , Edward Adolf ( 1907 ) , Whos Who , 59 : pp . 1643–1644 . - Edward Adolf Sonnenschein and the politics of linguistic authority in England 1880–1930 , in A . Linn and N . McLelland ( eds ) , Flores Grammaticae : Essays in memory of Vivien Law ( Münster : Nodus ) , pp . 211–19 . - On Jevons’s logical machine . Edward Adolf Sonnenschein . Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Birmingham Philosophical Society , Vol . IV , Part 1 . A paper read before the Society , 13 December 1883 - Sonnenschein Family details