Dr. Revilo P. Oliver - What We Owe Our Parasites (Hamburg, NY 9 June 1968)

At the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Revilo Pendleton Oliver taught Spanish, Italian, and Classical philology from July 7, 1908, until his death on August 20, 1994. He contributed to the National Review after the Second World War.Show more

The Revilo Pendleton In the vicinity of Corpus Christi, Texas, Oliver was born in 1908. Illinois provided the setting for his two years of high school. After once needing hospitalization "for one of the first mastoidectomies performed as more than a daring experiment", he disliked the harsh winters and moved to California to study Sanskrit. Later, he found a Hindu missionary to tutor him, and he used Max Müller's manuals and Monier Williams' grammar.

As a teenager, he enjoyed watching preachers "pitch the woo at the simple-minded," going to see Aimee Semple McPherson and Katherine Tingley perform. When he was sixteen years old, he enrolled in Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Oliver got married to Grace Needham in 1930. He returned to Illinois to study under William Abbott Oldfather at the University of Illinois. In 1938, the University of Illinois published Mricchakatika (The Little Clay Cart), an annotated translation from Sanskrit. In 1940, he earned his PhD. Niccol Perotti's Translations of the Enchiridion (republished in 1954 as Niccolo Perotti's Version of Epictetus' Enchiridion, with an Introduction and List of Perotti's Writings) was issued by the University the same year.

As a teenager, he enjoyed hearing preachers "pitch the woo at the simple-minded," going to see Aimee Semple McPherson and Katherine Tingley perform. He enrolled at Pomona College in Claremont, California, when he was sixteen years old.

Oliver married Grace Needham in 1930. He returned to Illinois to study under William Abbott Oldfather at the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois released Mricchakatika (The Little Clay Cart), an annotated translation from Sanskrit, in 1938. He obtained his PhD in 1940. The same year, the University released Niccolo Perotti's Translations of the Enchiridion (reprinted in 1954 as Niccolo Perotti's Version of Epictetus' Enchiridion, with an Introduction and List of Perotti's Writings).