Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray

George Gilbert Aimé Murray FBA , OM (born January 2, 1866 in Sydney , Australia , † May 20, 1957 in Oxford , England ) was a British classical scholar of Australian origin.

Life

At the age of eleven he moved in 1877 with his mother to the UK and studied from 1884 at St John's College of Oxford University , where he was awarded several prizes for his achievements in Classical Philology. From 1889 to 1899 he was Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow , from 1908 to 1936 at the University of Oxford ( Regius Professor of Greek ) . Since 1910 he was a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy . In 1927 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1931 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Murray worked in particular on Greek drama and its origins as well as on Greek religion, especially in collaboration with Jane Ellen Harrison and the two other Cambridge Ritualists Francis Macdonald Cornford and Arthur Bernard Cook (1868-1952). In the English-speaking world, he is also known for his translations of Greek dramas. He was in close contact with numerous international researchers, including Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and his student Paul Maas . In addition, Gilbert Murray was active from 1918 as a jury member on the committee for the award of the Hawthornden Prize , the oldest literary prize in Great Britain.

Fonts

• The problem of foreign policy. A consideration of the current dangers and the best ways to counter them. Translated from English by Luise Kautsky based on the edition for America . With a foreword by Karl Kautsky . JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin 1922.
• The Classical Tradition in Poetry. Oxford 1927.

literature

• Christopher Stray (Ed.): Gilbert Murray Reassessed. Hellenism, Theater, and International Politics. Oxford UP, Oxford 2007. - Review by Giuliana Scalera McClintock, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 03.10.2009 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gilbert Murray in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 176.
2. ↑ Henry Seidel Canby (Ed.): Saturday Review. Volume 6. Saturday Review Associates, 1929, p. 1161.
3. ^ JC Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James: The London Mercury. Volume 33. Field Press Limited, 1936, p. 102.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ingram Bywater	Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University 1908–1936	Eric Robertson Dodds