John Albert Nist

1925 - 1981  (55 years)

• Name	John Albert Nist
  Born	27 Nov 1925	Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Jun 1981	Napoli, Napoli, Campania, Italia   [5, 6]
  Buried	British Cemetery, Napoli, Napoli, Campania, Italia   [7, 8]
  Person ID	I343957	Suedpfalz
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2016

  
  

  Father	Albert Charles Nist,   b. 30 Jan 1901, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 3 May 1957, Logansport, Cass County, Indiana, USA  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Margaret Ann Rice,   b. 21 Dec 1896, Illinois, USA ,   d. 16 Mar 1974, Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida, USA  (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F115286	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Joan Irene Stidham
  Married	12 Jun 1950	Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA   [4]
  Divorced	Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Brian Thomas Nist   2. Brice Robert Nist   3. Brent Philip Nist   4. Blair William Nist
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F116855	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Maria Grazia Cimmino
  Children	1. Chiara Ann Nist
  Last Modified	1 May 2018
  Family ID	F116856	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S160] Cook County, Illinois Birth Index, 1916-1935, (www.ancestry.com). Name: John Nist Birth Date: 27 Nov 1925 Birth Location: Cook County, IL File Number: 6054310 Archive Collection Name: Cook County Genealogy Records (Births) Archive repository location: Chicago, IL Archive repository name: Cook County Clerk [S25] 1930 US Federal Census, (www.ancestry.com). [S26] 1940 US Federal Census. [S8] Information from an informant - Auskunft eines Informanten - Information d'un informateur. Proposed Change: John Albert Nist (I343957) Tree: Suedwestpfalz Link: http://www.birkenhoerdt.net/getperson.php?personID=I343957&tree=1 Description: John Albert Nist married Joan Irene Stidham on June 12 1950, in Cook county, Chicago Illinois They had 4 sons: Brian Thomas Nist August 1 , 1952 Brice Robert Nist January 9, 1955 Brent Philip October 19, 1961 Blair William Nist March 4, 1968 then John and Joan divorced second family: John Albert Nist then married Maria Grazia Cimmino born January 6 1935 in Naples, Italy - living they had 1 daughter that is myself: Chiara Ann Nist born August 9 1974 in Opelika, Alabama chiara nist chiara nist [S182] Social Security Applications and Claims Index 1936 - 2007, (www.ancestry.com). Name: John Patrick Nist [John Albert Nist] [John Nist] SSN: 313206618 Gender: Male Race: White Birth Date: 27 Nov 1925 Birth Place: Chicago Cook, Illinois Death Date: Jun 1981 Father: Albert C Nist Mother: Margaret T Rice Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: Jun 1942: Name listed as JOHN PATRICK NIST; Mar 1955: Name listed as JOHN ALBERT NIST; 29 Dec 1987: Name listed as JOHN NIST [S182] Social Security Applications and Claims Index 1936 - 2007, (www.ancestry.com). John Patrick Nist [John Albert Nist] [John Nist] SSN: 313206618 Gender: Male Race: White Birth Date: 27 Nov 1925 Birth Place: Chicago Cook, Illinois Death Date: Jun 1981 Father: Albert C Nist Mother: Margaret T Rice Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: Jun 1942: Name listed as JOHN PATRICK NIST; Mar 1955: Name listed as JOHN ALBERT NIST; 29 Dec 1987: Name listed as JOHN NIST [S926] Find-A-Grave, (www.findagrave.com). John Albert Nist Memorial Photos Flowers EditShare Learn about removing the ads from this memorial... Birth: 1925 Chicago Cook County Illinois, USA Death: Jun. 18, 1981 Naples Provincia di Napoli Campania, Italy A Remembrance by Julie Knowles, Auburn University John Nist, an international man, did not consider the soil of Italy foreign to him, and he might well have chosen it as the spot where "moist earth was heaped upon his private night" — to adapt a line from Love Songs for Marisa, his second volume of poetry. On June 18 he died suddenly of a heart attack, in Naples, while visiting his wife Maria's parents. He was buried in the British Cemetery there. It is somehow appropriate that he lies not far from the tomb of his admired Vergil, for although Nist will be remembered by Anglo-Saxonists most of all for his scholarly/linguistic contributions, his perceptive and sensitive love of language was always refreshed in his poetry. Since 1966, while a professor of English at Auburn University, Nist was in fact producing some twenty to thirty poems a year for publication. Much of his work was also aired over radio in Illinois and Texas, and from coast to coast he was frequently invited to share his poetry in person. In addition to his Civil War epic "Dulce et Decorum" and numerous single poems, he published several collections of poetry – Among the Pyramids and Other Poems (1977), the 1978 collection titled affectionately for Maria ("Marisa"), and The Garden of Love (1981). Nist was born in Chicago and received his early education in the Midwest. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he attended De Paul University and then Indiana University, where he received his doctorate in 1952. Before coming to Auburn, he taught at Eastern Michigan University and at Austin College, Texas, where he was Chairman and Shoap Professor of English. The respect of his colleagues came rapidly, as he was chosen "Man of the Year" in the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters in 1960. He was later awarded a Fulbright Lectureship at the Universidade de Sao Paulo and a research fellowship at the Universidade de Brasil. In 1964 he received the Machado de Assis award from the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Nist was again Fulbright Lecturer in 1970, this time in linguistics and English at the Università di Roma, from where he travelled and lectured widely throughout Italy. Nist was the author of eight books on linguistics, composition, and literature, among them A Structural History of English, A Linguistic Handbook of English Composition, Phonological Aspects of English, The Modernist Movement in Brazil, and The Structure and Texture of "Beowulf". He also published four monographic essays and scores of articles and reviews. Nist the Anglo-Saxonist devoted himself mainly to studies in the difficult, controversial areas of Old English alliteration and meter. Convinced of the metrical and aesthetic importance of the harp in Old English recitation, he first set forth his theory in The Structure and Texture of "Beowulf" (1959), further developing it in "Metrical Uses of the Harp in Beowulf" (1967). In Nist's method of scansion, stresses are counted within approximately isochronous measures in each half-line. The effect is a syncopated rhythm, with the harp being used to fill in a pause-value and to compensate for a missing secondary or light stress. The theory confirms the importance of the harp, leaving little doubt of its several functional uses, particularly in maintaining the basic dipodic rhythm of Beowulf. Even greater, more enduring than John Nist's achievements as a scholar were his abilties to inspire his students, to challenge them to their finest, all with mutual respect and esteem. I was among the last to join his longstanding comitatus, and it is all too early that I join his other students in remembering him now with gratitude and affection. Note added by Larry Benner (John was a 1944 graduate of Logansport (IN) High School) < Family links: Parents: Albert C Nist (1901 - 1957) Margaret Nist (1901 - ____) Sibling: John Albert Nist (1925 - 1981) Jerome William Nist (1929 - 2007)** *Calculated relationship **Half-sibling Burial: Naples British Cemetery Naples Provincia di Napoli Campania, Italy Created by: Larry Benner Record added: Jun 02, 2015 Find A Grave Memorial# 147312979 [S8] Information from an informant - Auskunft eines Informanten - Information d'un informateur. Proposed Change: John Albert Nist (I343957) Tree: Suedwestpfalz Link: http://www.birkenhoerdt.net/getperson.php?personID=I343957&tree=1 Description: John Albert Nist died 18/06/1981 in Naples, Italy. He is buried in Naples British Cemetery chiara nist chiara nist