Colin Hardie

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Colin Graham Hardie (born February 16, 1906 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † October 17, 1998 in Chichester , West Sussex ) was a British classical scholar .

Life

Colin Hardie was the third son of Professor William Ross Hardie (1862-1916, Fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and "Professor of Humanity" at the University of Edinburgh ), and Isabella Watt Hardie (nee Stevenson). Colin Hardie attended the Edinburgh Academy a free school. His older brother William Francis Ross Hardie (1902-1990) was from 1950 to 1969 President of Corpus Christi College in Oxford.

Since 1940 Hardie was married to the Christian Viola Mary Lucas (1910-2001, daughter of Percival Lucas), they had two sons, Anthony and Nicholas, who in 1950 had an edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( Der King of Narnia ) from CS Lewis, a friend of his father's, with a personal dedication. "Nicholas Hardie, with love from Jack Lewis." The book went up for auction on July 19, 2012 for £ 8,000.

In 1927 Colin Hardie received the Gaisford Prize for Greek prose. From 1928 to 1929 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College in Oxford and from 1933 to 1936 director at the British School in Rome . From 1967 to 1973 he worked as a Fellow and Tutor of Classical Philology and from 1967 as Public Orator (public speaker) at Magdalen College of Oxford University . Like JRR Tolkien , CS Lewis , Nevill Coghill or Hugo Dyson, he was a member of the " Inklings " association.

Fonts

  • Homer and the Odyssey Another Point of View. In: Antiquity. Volume 16, No. 63, 1942, ISSN  0003-598X , doi: 10.1017 / S0003598X00017749 , pp. 265-277.
  • with C. S Lewis: The myth of Oedipus. Oxonian Press, Oxford 1946.
  • Dante's Comedy as self-analysis and integration. 1959.
  • Vitae Vergilianae antiquae: vita Donati, vita Servii, vita Probiana, vita Focae, S. Hieronymi excerpta. Oxford University Press, London 1966.
  • The Georgics: a transitional poem. Abbey Press, Abingdon 1971.

literature

  • Roger Lancelyn Green, Walter Hooper: CS Lewis: A Biography. 2nd edition, p. 154. Harper Collins, 2002, ISBN 0-00-628164-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Obituary: Colin Hardie on independent.co.uk, accessed February 6, 2013.
  2. ^ Rare Lewis book a gift from author. from oxfordtimes.co.uk, accessed February 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ Rare first-edition Narnia book given to young boy by CS Lewis up for auction at £ 12,000. from dailymail.co.uk, accessed February 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ Rare Signed Narnia First Edition goes at Auction for £ 30,000. ( narniafans.com ).
personal data
SURNAME Hardie, Colin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardie, Colin Graham (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1998
Place of death Chichester , West Sussex