Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature

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The Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature is the representative of a professorship in the field of Byzantine and Neo- Greek Studies at Oxford University , which is devoted to Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature. Alongside the chair of Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London , she is considered the leading British professorship in her field.

history

The professorship was established in 1915 on the basis of and with the means of the legacy of Charlotte Bywater († February 17, 1908), the widow of the Oxford classical philologist Hans Sotheby (1827-1875). In her second marriage, she married the Graecist Ingram Bywater (1840-1914), who contributed a further sum to the foundation. Therefore, the professorship only includes the position of professor and a fellowship in Exeter College , but does not have any further institutional resources. It was occupied for the first time by Richard MacGillivray Dawkins , who was not very popular with the public , but then with international representatives of the subject.

literature

  • William Walrond Jackson: Ingram Bywater. The Memoir of an Oxford Scholar, 1840-1914 . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1917, pp. 201–202: "Mrs. Bywater's Benefaction to the University of Oxford "( online ).

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