Gilbert Highet

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Gilbert Highet , actually Gilbert Arthur Highet (born June 22, 1906 in Glasgow , Scotland , † January 20, 1978 in New York , United States ) was an American classical scholar of Scottish origin.

Life

Highet was a son of the Superintenden of Telegraphs for West Scotland. He attended Hillhead High School and then studied at Glasgow University . After obtaining the Master of Arts in 1928, he moved to Balliol College in Oxford . There he studied under Cyril Bailey , Maurice Bowra and Gilbert Murray until 1932 . While studying there, Highet founded the Oxford Experimental Theater Society and two plays for them.

On September 22, 1932, Highet married his fellow student Helen MacInnes in the Memorial Chapel of the University of Glasgow and had a son, Keith, who was born in Oxford in the summer of 1933. From that time Highet was at St. John's College ; from 1933 to 1937 as tutor and fellow .

In 1937 Highet accepted a position at Columbia University (New York). He worked there a. a. together with Moses Hadas . When, with his help, his contract was turned into a permanent position, Highet had his wife and son follow suit. He remained associated with this university throughout his life; except from 1941 to 1946 when he served as a British citizen in the British Army .

In 1946, Highet returned to New York and resumed his work at Columbia University. Since he and his family did not plan to return to Scotland again, he applied for US citizenship and was granted it in 1951.

Parallel to his university work, Highet worked as a literary critic for Harper's Magazine between 1952 and 1954 . In 1958 he was brought to the editorial office of Horizon Magazine , where he worked for 19 years a. a. was jointly responsible for the features section . As early as 1954, he was elected to the jury of the Book of Month Club and stayed there until the end of his life.

With over 71 years Gilbert Highet died on January 20, 1978 in New York on his cancer .

Publications (selection)

as an author
  • The anatomy of satire . University Press, Princeton, NJ 1972, ISBN 0-691-01306-3 .
  • The Classical Tradition. Greek and Roman influences on Western Literature. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1949; 4th edition New York / London 1959; Reprint ibid 1985, ISBN 0-19-500206-7 (reprint of the Oxford 1949 edition).
  • Lead, teach, instruct. Education as art ("The art of teaching"). Klett, Stuttgart 1962.
  • The immortal profession. The joys of teaching and learning . Weybright & Talley, New York 1976, ISBN 0-679-40130-X .
  • Juvenal , the satirist. A study . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1960.
  • Man's unconquerable mind . University Press, New York 1954.
  • An outline of Homer . Gollancz, London 1935.
  • People, Places and Books . 6th ed. Oxford University Press, New York 1969.
  • Roman Arcadia. Poets and their landscape (“Poets in a landscape”). Goldmann, Munich 1964 ( Catullus , Virgil , Properz , Horaz , Tibullus , Ovid , Juvenal ).
  • The speeches of Virgil 's Aeneid . University Press, New York 1972, ISBN 0-691-06234-X .
  • The unpublished lectures of Gilbert Highet Lang, New York 1998, ISBN 0-8204-3824-3 (edited by Robert Ball).
  • The migration of ideas ("The migration of ideas"). Holle-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1959.
as translator

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personal data
SURNAME Highet, Gilbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Highet, Gilbert Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1978
Place of death New York , USA