Charles Pomeroy Otis

Charles Pomeroy Otis was born on April 8, 1840, in Lebanon, Connecticut, to Olive M. (née Osgood) and reverend Israel T. Otis. His father was a pastor at Levanon. In 1844, he moved with his father to Rye, New Hampshire. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Yale College in 1861.^[1][2]

Following graduation, Otis was principal at an academy in Fairfield, Connecticut, for about a year. He then became a teacher at the Russell Military Academy in New Haven. In January 1865, he became a Latin tutor at Yale College. In July 1869, he resigned and spent three years in Europe, mainly Paris and Berlin. He then studied again at Yale and graduated with a PhD in 1873.^[1]

In the summer of 1873, Otis was appointed professor of modern languages at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He remained there until his death.^[1]

• Otis, Charles Pomeroy, Grammar of Elementary German^[1]
• Otis, Charles Pomeroy, Outline of Middle High German Grammar and Selections from the Nibelungen Lied^[2]
• Otis, Charles Pomeroy (trans.) Voyages of Samuel de Champlain^[2]
• Schiller, Friedrich; Otis. Charles Pomeroy (ed.) Das Lied von der Glocke^[2]
• von Goethe, Johann Wolfang; Otis, Charles Pomeroy (ed.) Märchen^[3]

Otis married Sarah Margaret Noyes of Boston on June 11, 1884. They had two sons.^[1]

Otis fell into poor health in 1888. He died on November 17, 1888, at his home on Chestnut Street in Boston.^[1][3] He was buried in Exeter, New Hampshire.^[4]