George Long (classical philologist)

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George Long (born November 4, 1800 in Poulton-le-Fylde , Lancashire , † August 10, 1879 in Chichester ) was an English classical philologist and scholar .

Life

Long was the eldest son of the merchant James Long. He attended school in Macclesfield and studied from 1818 at Trinity College , Cambridge.

From 1821 he was a scholar with Thomas Babington Macaulay and Henry Maiden Craven University, graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1822 and was named assistant to the chancellor in the same year. From 1823 to 1827 he was a Fellow at Trinity College and obtained a Masters degree in 1825. In 1824 he was elected professor of ancient languages ​​at the newly established University of Virginia in Charlottesville , but after four years he returned as the first professor of Greek to the newly founded University of London in England, where he worked until 1831. In 1837 he was admitted to the Inner Temple .

In 1842 he followed Thomas Hewitt Key (1799–1875) as Professor of Latin at University College London for four years ; from 1846 to 1849 he taught jurisprudence and civil law at the Middle Temple or Inner Temple, and finally from 1849 to 1871 ancient history at Brighton College . After his retirement, he lived in Port Field, Chichester , 1873 he moved into him by Gladstone exposed board annually £ 100th

Long was one of the founding members of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830 , of which he was a senior member for twenty years. In addition, he was also active in the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , for which he published the quarterly Journal of Education and other books from 1831 to 1835 . He edited the Penny Cyclopaedia and Knight's Political Dictionary , initially together with Charles Knight , and then alone . From 1837 he was a member of the London-based Society for Central Education .

He contributed the articles pertaining to Roman law to Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and also wrote articles for the Biography and Geography Encyclopedias, also edited by Smith , the contributions are signed with his initials GL . However, his name is mainly known as the editor of the Bibliotheca Classica series, which was the first to publish the texts of ancient writers together with an English-language commentary. Here he contributed the editions of Cicero's De oratore in four volumes from 1851 to 1862 .

In 1881 the George Long Prize was donated in his honor . Long was married three times, with his first wife Harriet, the widow of Joseph Selden, he had a daughter who, however, died at a young age, and four sons.

Works (selection)

In addition to other work, Long published, among other things:

  • Summary of Herodotus (1829)
  • Works of Herodotus (1830–1833; editor)
  • Xenophon ’s Anabasis (1831; editor)
  • Revision of the editions of the satires of Juvenal and the works of Persius (1867) and Horace (1869) edited by JA Macleane
  • Civil Wars of Rome
  • Translation (with Aubrey Stewart ) and notes on thirteen volumes of Plutarch ’s Vitae (1844–1848)
  • Translation of the meditations by Marcus Aurelius (1862)
  • Translation of the doctrinal conversations (Discourses) of Epictetus (1877)
  • Decline of the Roman Republic (1864–1874), 5 volumes.

See also HJ Matthews: In Memoriam , reprinted from Brighton College Magazine. 1879.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Works by George Long on Wikisource  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Long, George . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 4 : Kahlenberg – Oyler . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1951, pp. 204 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).