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3 unusual facts about John William Donaldson


Albert Henry Wratislaw

At Bury also he greatly raised the numbers of the school, which the Book of Jasher of his predecessor, Dr. John William Donaldson, is said to have helped to empty.

John William Donaldson

Of his numerous other works the most important are The Theatre of the Greeks; The History of the Literature of ancient Greece (a translation and completion of Otfried Müller's unfinished work); editions of the Odes of Pindar and the Antigone of Sophocles; a Hebrew, a Greek and a Latin grammar.

Karl Otfried Müller

J. W. Donaldson, “On the Life and Writings of Karl Otfried Müller” in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, vol.



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