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Gordon Jennings Laing

Gordon Jennings Laing (October 16, 1869 – September 1, 1945) was an American classical scholar, born in London, Ontario, Canada.

John Benjamin Henck

John Benjamin Henck (October 20, 1815 Philadelphia – January 3, 1903 Montecito, California) was a classical scholar and civil engineer.

Moses I. Finley

Sir Moses I. Finley, CBE, FBA (May 20, 1912–June 23, 1986) was an American professor, whose prosecution by the McCarran Security Committee led to his move to England, where he became English classical scholar and eventually master of Darwin College, Cambridge.

Peter Boston

One of Boston's creations, the house he designed in 1959 for artist Elisabeth Vellacott, sister of classical scholar Philip Vellacott, served as the basis of the home in Rebecca Stott's 2007 novel Ghostwalk.

Richard Dawes

The Miscellanea, which was re-edited by Thomas Burgess (1781), Gottlieb Christoph Harless (1800) and Thomas Kidd (1817), for many years enjoyed a high reputation.


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1771 in poetry

July 30 – Thomas Gray (born 1716), English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University; died in Cambridge, then buried beside his mother in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, the setting for his famous 1750 poem, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

A. Maitland Emmet

During his life, Maitland Emmet became one of Britain's leading specialists in the Microlepidoptera, as well as a Classical scholar.

Adolf Michaelis

Adolf Michaelis (22 June 1835 – 12 August 1910) was a German classical scholar, a professor of art history at the University of Strasbourg from 1872, who helped establish the connoisseurship of Ancient Greek sculpture and Roman sculpture on their modern footing.

Åkerström

Åke Åkerström (1902–1991), Swedish archaeologist and classical scholar

Ann Paludan

Her father was the second son of the eminent classical scholar Gilbert Murray and his wife Lady Mary Howard, and Ann would visit her grandparents at Yatscombe, on Boars Hill, particularly during her undergraduate years in St Hugh's College, Oxford when she cycled up to Yatscombe every Sunday.

Anthony Grafton

His many books include a profound study of the scholarship and chronology of the foremost classical scholar of the late Renaissance, Joseph Scaliger (2 vols, 1983–1993), a revisionist account (with Lisa Jardine) of the significance of Renaissance education (From Humanism to the Humanities, 1986), and, more recently, studies of Girolamo Cardano as an astrologer (1999) and Leon Battista Alberti (2000).

Arthur Mason

Arthur James Mason (1851–1928), English clergyman, theologian and classical scholar

Bibliotheca Classica

The Bibliotheca Classica (Reading, November, 1788), or Classical Dictionary containing a full Account of all the Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors is the best-known work of John Lemprière, an English classical scholar.

Charles Jennens

After his father's death in 1747, Jennens had Gopsall Hall completely rebuilt in the Palladian style, including within the estate an Ionic temple built in memory of his friend, the poet and classical scholar, Edward Holdsworth.

Colin MacLeod

Colin William MacLeod (1943–1981), British classical scholar, educator and author

Cornforth

Thomas Hutchinson (bap. 1698, d. 1769) was a classical scholar, born in Cornforth and baptised there on 17 May 1698.

Deipnosophistae

The encyclopaedist Sir Thomas Browne wrote a Latin essay on Athenaeus which reflects a revived interest in the Banquet of the Learned amongst scholars following the publication of the Deipnosophistae in 1612 by the Classical scholar Isaac Casaubon.

Donald Robertson

Donald Struan Robertson (1885–1961), classical scholar at the University of Cambridge

Dubner

Johann Friedrich Dübner (1802–1867), German classical scholar (naturalized a Frenchman), was born in Horselgau, near Gotha

Fabricius

Ernst Fabricius (1857–1942), German historian, archaeologist and classical scholar

Fynes

Henry Fynes Clinton (1781–1852), English classical scholar and chronologist, born in Gamston, Nottinghamshire

George Allman

George Johnston Allman (1824–1904), Irish mathematician, classical scholar, and historian

Hermetica

However the classical scholar Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) successfully argued that some, mainly those dealing with philosophy, betrayed too recent a vocabulary.

Hugh Jones

Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1922–2009), British classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University

James Greenough

James B. Greenough (1833–1901), 19th-century American classical scholar

James Hildyard

James Hildyard (11 April 1809, Winestead – 27 August 1887, Ingoldsby) was an English classical scholar.

Johannes Meursius

Johannes Meursius (van Meurs) (February 9, 1579, Loosduinen, near the Hague – September 20, 1639, Sorø), was a Dutch classical scholar and antiquary.

John Chadwick

John Chadwick (21 May 1920 – 24 November 1998) was an English linguist and classical scholar who, with Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, was most notable for the decipherment of Linear B.

John Kirtland Wright

He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, and the brother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright.

Josef Wiesehöfer

Josef Wiesehöfer (born April 5, 1951 in Wickede, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German classical scholar and current professor of Ancient history at the Department of Classics (Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde) of the University of Kiel.

Kahn Lectures

The first of these scholars was the Russian classical scholar Michael Rostovtzeff, who had already settled in the United States in 1918, after the Russian revolution.

Kano Emirate

Heinrich Barth, a classical scholar who spent several years in northern Nigeria in the 1850s, estimated the percentage of slaves in Kano to be at least 50%, most of whom lived in slave villages.

Karl Beck

Charles Beck (1798–1866), German-born American classical scholar

Laurence Gomme

The couple had seven sons, including Arthur Allan Gomme, a librarian and historian of technology, and Arnold Wycombe Gomme, a noted classical scholar.

Lemprière

John Lemprière (circa 1765-1824), English classical scholar, lexicographer, theologian, teacher and headmaster

Mallwitz

Alfred Mallwitz (1919 - 1986), German architect, classical scholar of architecture

Minton Warren

Minton Warren (1850–1907), American classical scholar, was born at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on 29 January 1850, a descendant of Richard Warren, who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620.

Padel

:*Ruth Padel, British classical scholar, poet and journalist, daughter of John

Passow

Franz Passow (1786–1833), a German classical scholar and lexicographer

Pnyx

French classical scholar Robert Flacelière states that the Pnyx had enough standing room for as many as 20,000 citizens.

Richard Knight

Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824), classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist

Richard Leonard

He is married to Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, a scholar of postwar German literature, and is the father of Mark Leonard, an expert on foreign policy, and Miriam Leonard, a classical scholar.

Robert Hicks

Robert Drew Hicks (1850 — 1929), classical scholar and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Roman Catholic Diocese of Quimper

Other notable secular members of the diocese are the classical scholar Jean Hardouin (1646–1729) and the critic Élie Catherine Fréron (1719–71).

Sélincourt

Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894–1962), English writer, classical scholar and translator

Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet

The second son of Colonel E. H. Steel and Emmeline, daughter of General Henry Drummond, Steel-Maitland was educated at Rugby and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a classical Scholar and Eldon Scholar in 1899.

Templeton, Massachusetts

Jonathan Baldwin Turner, classical scholar, botanist, dedicated Christian, and political activist

Vicary Gibbs

During this period, he was a devoted classical scholar, a King's Scholar at Eton and a Craven scholar at King's College.

Walter George Headlam

The classical scholar John Edwin Sandys, in his A History of Classical Scholarship (1908), wrote of Headlam, "Only nine days before his death, he had the pleasure of meeting Wilamowitz, who, in the course of his brief visit to Cambridge, said of some of Walter Headlam's Greek verses that, if they had been discovered in an Egyptian papyrus, they would immediately have been recognised by all scholars as true Greek poetry".

Wheelock, Cheshire

Edward Harwood (1729–1794) English classical scholar and biblical critic, preached at Wheelock

William Allman

George Johnston Allman (1824 – 1904), mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics was the son of William Allman MD.

William Bellenden

William Bellenden (c. 1550 – c. 1633) was a Scottish classical scholar.

William Heberden

Heberden, who was also a classical scholar, published several papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; and among his noteworthy contributions to the Medical Transactions (issued, largely at his suggestion, by the College of Physicians) were papers on chickenpox (1767) and angina pectoris (1768).

William Woodhouse

William John Woodhouse (1866-1937), English classical scholar and author