Herbert Jennings Rose

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Herbert Jennings Rose FBA (born May 5, 1883 in Orillia , Ontario , † July 31, 1961 in St Andrews , Scotland) was a British classical philologist of Canadian origin.

Life

Herbert Jennings Rose, the son of a Methodist clergyman, studied Classical Philology at McGill University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1904 . He then went as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford and deepened his studies. Here he won the Chancellor's Latin Essay Prize (1907) in 1907, took a second bachelor's examination ( Balliol College , 1907) and was hired as a fellow at Exeter College . In 1911 he returned to Canada and taught as an Associate Professor of Classics at McGill University.

After participating in World War I , Rose stayed in Great Britain until his death. He taught from 1919 as Professor of Latin at Aberystwyth University and from 1927 as Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews (1953 emeritus). In 1954 the university awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Herbert J. Rose was particularly concerned with the Greek and Latin literature of antiquity, for which he published English-language manuals. His greatest interest, however, was research into myths and legends. He collected Greek, Roman and Celtic sagas, was President of the Folklore Society from 1932 to 1935 and President of the Scottish Anthropological Society from 1932 to 1952. His best-known work is A Handbook of Greek Mythology (first published in 1928), which was published several times and translated into several languages. In German it was published under the title Greek Mythology. A manual translated by Anna Elisabeth Berve-Glauning .

His international reputation earned Rose numerous honors, including his appointment as a corresponding member of the Istituto lombardo di scienze e lettere (1932) and the British Academy (1934), visiting professor at Harvard University (1935), and a foreign member of the Royal Humanist Society in Lund (1935), Sather Professor (1939), Honorary Fellow of Exeter College (1944) and Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1951).

literature

  • Robert L. Fowler: Rose, Herbert Jennings . In: Ward W. Briggs (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. a. 1994, ISBN 0-313-24560-6 , pp. 536-538.
  • Domenico Accorinti: Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927–1958. The Long Friendship between the Author and the Translator of The All-Knowing God. With an Appendix of Documents. Brill, Leiden 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-26684-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rose, Herbert Jennings
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rose, Herbert J .; Rose, HJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical philologist of Canadian origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Orillia (Ontario)
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1961
Place of death St Andrews , Scotland