'''Henry Alfred Todd, Ph. D.''' (1854–1925) was an American Romance philologist.

Biography

Henry Alfred Todd was born at Woodstock, Illinois on March 13, 1854. He was educated at Princeton (A.B., 1876), and at Paris, Berlin, and Madrid, (1880–83), and at Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1885), where he taught for several years. He held the chair or Romance languages at Stanford, 1891–93, and became professor of Romance philology at Columbia. He married Miriam Gilman in Baltimore on July 30, 1894, and they had four children. In 1906 he was president of the Modern Language Association of America. In 1910, with Raymond Weeks and other scholars, he founded the Romanic Review, the first learned review in English devoted entirely to the Romance languages. Among his publications are: Henry Alfred Todd died at his home in New York City on January 3, 1925. He was buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.