Ian D. McFarlane

Ian Dalrymple McFarlane (born November 7, 1915 in Newcastle upon Tyne , † August 17, 2002 in St Andrews ) was a British Romance scholar and neo-Latin philologist .

After attending a lycée in Marseille , McFarlane first went to Westminster School to study classics; however, in the final year of school he chose modern languages. In 1935 he went to St Andrews University and studied modern languages. He completed his studies in 1938. He then joined the Black Watch , but was later forced to give himself up so he had to spend the remainder of the war as a prisoner of war. In 1945 he was awarded a military MBE . From 1945 to 1947 he was a lecturer at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge , but then took a doctorate at the Sorbonneon. After returning to Gonville and Caius College, he was promoted to senior tutor there in 1956. In 1961 he went to St Andrews University as a professor of French language and literature. In 1971 he was appointed to a chair at Wadham College , Oxford , which he held until his retirement in 1983. McFarlane was a fellow of the British Academy and has received several other awards. One of his students was Philip Ford .

McFarlane wrote on a wide variety of Romance subjects, particularly Renaissance literature . With a monograph on George Buchanan , he also devoted himself to the Scottish literature of the Renaissance. His preoccupation with Renaissance literature also led him to neo-Latin literature . He also hosted the fifth international congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies in St Andrews in 1982 and is considered to be the founder of neo-Latin studies in the United Kingdom .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Renaissance France , in: A Literary History of France. 6 vols.Benn, London 1974.
• Buchanan. Duckworth, London 1981.
• Neo-Latin Poetry in Renaissance France. Previously unpublished book manuscript.

Editorships

• The Entry of Henri II into Paris, June 16, 1549. Binghamton (NY) 1982.
• (Ed.): Acta Conventus Neo-latini Sanctandreani: Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Neo-latin Studies: St Andrews, 24 August to 1 September 1982. (= Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies , Volume 38). Center for Medieval and early Renaissance studies, St Andrews 1981.
• Maurice Scève, Délie . Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1966.
• Pierre Corneille, Cinna or La Clémence d'Auguste. Tragédie en 5 actes présentée par Ian McFarlane. Didier, Paris 1965.

literature

• T. Cave: Ian Dalrymple McFarlane, 1915-2002 , in: Proceedings of the British Academy 124, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows , III, 2004, 182-203.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ian D. McFarlane in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Professor Ian McFarlane , in: The Scotsman , September 12, 2002
• Warwick University: Neo-Latin Poetry in Renaissance France (posthumous publication of a manuscript)