F. B. Kaye

Frederick Benjamin Kaye (20 April 1892 – 1930) was an American scholar who was notable for his work on Bernard Mandeville. He was professor of English at Northwestern University from 1918 to 1930.[1]

He was born in New York City as Frederick Benjamin Kugelman to Julius G. Kugelman, a native of Hamburg, Germany who had emigrated to New York. Frederick Kugelman subsequently changed his surname to Kaye.[2][3] He was educated at Yale University, where he obtained a BA in 1914 and an MA in 1916.[3][4]

In 1975 Mandeville Studies claimed that Kaye "almost single-handedly revived Mandeville as one of the most important writers of the eighteenth century".[5]

Works
  • 'The Writings of Bernard Mandeville: A Bibliographical Survey', The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Oct., 1921), pp. 419–467.
  • 'The Influence of Bernard Mandeville', Studies in Philology, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan., 1922), pp. 83–108.
  • 'Mandeville on the Origin of Language', Modern Language Notes, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Mar., 1924), pp. 136–142.
  • (with R. S. Crane), 'A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800', Studies in Philology, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Jan., 1927), pp. 1–205.

Notes
  1. Yale University catalogue of Kaye's papers
  2. History of the Class of Nineteen-hundred and Fourteen: Yale College, Volume 1 (Yale University Press, 1914), p. 226.
  3. Bulletin of Yale University: Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University (Yale University Press, 1930), p. 206.
  4. Reports to the President of Yale University (Yale University Press, 1923), p. 185.
  5. Irwin Primer (ed.), Mandeville Studies: New Explorations in the Art and Thought of Dr. Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) (Springer, 1975), p. vii.
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