American philologist, born in Stamford, CT, in 1856; graduated at Columbia College, New York, in 1881. He was appointed instructor in Latin in Columbia in 1882; later he was lecturer on Biblical Hebrew; succeeded Charles Short in the Latin chair; and after study in Berlin was elected professor of Latin language and literature. He was also lecturer in classical philology in Barnard College for Women. He was a trustee and one of the original incorporators of the Columbia University Press and secretary of the faculty of Columbia College. Among his published works are The Semitic Theory of Creation (1885); Suetonius (1889); Latin Pronunciation (1890); and numerous papers, addresses, etc. In conjunction with Prof. E. M. Pease, Professor Peck brought out a series of Latin classics for college use; edited Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities (1896); the University Bulletin (1891–95); Classical Studies (1894); and in 1895 became editor of the Bookman. See also “Heliotrope,” “Wonderland,” and “The Other One.”
