| LC control no. | no2015078691 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Foster, Reginaldus Thomas, 1939-2020 |
| Variant(s) | Foster, Reginaldus Thomas, 1939- Foster, Reginald, 1939-2020 Reginaldus, 1939-2020 |
| Associated country | United States Vatican City Italy |
| Located | Rome (Italy) |
| Birth date | 1939-11-14 |
| Death date | 2020-12-25 |
| Place of birth | Milwaukee (Wis.) |
| Place of death | Milwaukee (Wis.) |
| Field of activity | Latin philology, Medieval and modern |
| Affiliation | Pontificia Università gregoriana Discalced Carmelites Catholic Church. Secretaria Status |
| Profession or occupation | Priests Latin teachers Philologists University and college faculty members |
| Found in | Ossa Latinitatis sola ad mentem Reginaldi rationemque, 2015: ECIP title page (Reginaldus Thomas Foster ; ... Reginaldi) CIP data view (born 1939) book title page (Reginaldus Thomas Foster) back cover (Reginaldus Thomas Foster; American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites; formerly worked in the Latin Letters section of the Secretariat of State in the Vatican and was the Papal Latinist from 1969 to 2009) English Wikipedia, viewed September 20, 2021 (Reginald Foster (Latinist); Reginald Thomas Foster OCD; born November 14, 1939, in Milwaukee; died December 25, 2020, in Milwaukee; American Roman Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites; joined Carmelite order in 1959; went to Rome to study in 1962; from 1970 until retirement in 2009, he worked in the Latin Letters section of the Secretariat of State of the Vatican; he spent 30 years teaching Latin at the Gregorian University in Rome) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Foster_(Latinist)> New York times, viewed online on September 20, 2021: obituary dated December 27, 2020 (Reginald Foster, Vatican Latinist Who Tweeted in the Language, Dies at 81; Father Foster; one of the world's foremost experts on Latin; died on Christmas Day [2020]; entered a Carmelite seminary at age 15 in 1955 and joined the order in 1959; ordained to the priesthood in 1966) <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/obituaries/reginald-foster-vatican-latinist-who-tweeted-in-the-language-dies-at-81.html> |
| Associated language | eng lat |
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