Arthur Hilary Armstrong

Arthur Hilary Armstrong FBA (born August 13, 1909 in Hove , England , † October 16, 1997 ) was a British classical philologist and historian of philosophy . He was a globally recognized authority on the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus and Neoplatonism. An authoritative translation of Plotinus into English comes from him.

Life

Armstrong was the son of WA Armstrong, a clergyman, and E. Cripps Armstrong. After visiting the Lancing College he acquired in 1932 a BA at Jesus College , Cambridge, and in 1935 an MA in 1936, he joined his first job at the University College of Swansea University in Wales at. In 1939 he moved to the Royal University of Malta in Valletta as Professor of Classics. In 1943 he returned to England as a teacher of Classics in the Sixth Form at Beaumont College in Old Windsor , Berkshire . In 1946 he became a lecturer in Latin at Cardiff University for three years . From 1950 until his retirement in 1972 he was Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool . In 1965 he brought Henry J. Blumenthal to his chair as a lecturer in Greek. In parallel to this position, he was visiting professor at Manhattanville College in 1966 . From 1970 to 1971 he was Killam Senior Fellow at Dalhousie University in Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada , from 1972 to Professor of Classics and Philosophy there.

With the philosopher James Alexander Doull and the religious philosopher Robert Darwin Crouse , he founded the magazine Dionysius in 1977 , which was published by the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University.

In 1970 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy . He was also a Fellow of the American Catholic Philosophical Association , which awarded him the Aquinas Medal in 1973 .

In 1933 he married Deborah Wilson. They have two sons and three daughters.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs and Articles

• The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy of Plotinus: An Analytical and Historical Study . Cambridge University Press, 1940.
• An Introduction to Ancient Philosophy . Methuen, 1947, 4th edition, Methuen, 1966.
• (with RA Markus): Christian Faith and Greek Philosophy . Darton, Longman & Todd, 1960, Sheed, 1964.
• St. Augustine and Christian Platonism . Villanova University Press, 1967.
• The Church of England, the Methodists and Society: 1700 to 1850 . Rowman & Littlefield, 1973.
• Greek philosophy and Christianity , in: Moses I. Finley (Ed.), The Legacy of Greece, a New appraisal . Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981.

Editorships

• (Ed. With EJB Fry): Re-discovering Eastern Christendom: Essays in Commemoration of Dom Bede Winslow . Darton, Longman & Todd, 1963.
• (Ed.): The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy . Cambridge University Press, 1967.
• (Ed.): Classical mediterranean spirituality, Egyptian, Greek, Roman . Crossroads, 1986.

Translations

• (Transl.): Plotinus . Allen & Unwin, 1953, Collier, 1962.
• (Transl.): Plotinus . Harvard University Press, 1966–1988 (seven volumes).

Web links

• Literature by and about Arthur Hilary Armstrong in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Anthony Arthur Long : Arthur Hilary Armstrong 1909-1997 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy 120, 2003, pp. 3-17.