James Adam (classical philologist)

James Adam (born April 7, 1860 in Kinmuck, Keithhall, Aberdeenshire , † August 30, 1907 in Aberdeen ) was a British classical scholar .

After attending the Old Aberdeen grammar school , Adam began studying classical philology at the University of Aberdeen in 1876 , from which he graduated in 1880 with a first class honors BA . He then received a place as a Classical Scholar at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge , where he won the first Chancelor's Medal in 1884 . In the same year he was made a Fellow of Emmanuel College , and since 1900 he has also been a senior tutor there. He also taught at Girton College , a college for women founded in 1869. In 1903 he was charged with the text edition of Plato's state to Litt. D. PhD. From 1904 to 1906 he had the honor of giving the Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He chose The Religious Teachers of Greece as the subject . In 1906 he ran with a praelection on The Doctrine of the Celestial Origin of the Soul from Pindar to Plato (published in The Vitality of Platonism and Other Essays ) for the election of Regius Professor of Greek , a position that resulted from the death of Richard Claverhouse Jebb was vacant and was eventually reoccupied with Henry Jackson .

Adam had been married to Adela Marion Adam, a former student and lifelong employee, since 1890. Her two sons were the chemist Neil Kensington Adam FRS (born November 6, 1891 in Cambridge; † July 19, 1973 in Southampton ) and Arthur Innes Adam (born April 25, 1894; † September 16, 1916), their daughter's sociologist Barbara Wootton (born April 14, 1897 in Cambridge, † July 11, 1988 in Surrey). Adela Marion Adam published her husband's Gifford Lectures with a biographical sketch as well as other writings from the estate. She is also the author of her own book on Plato : Plato's Moral and Political Ideas (1913).

Adam is known for his Plato editions and commentaries ( Apology , Crito , Euthyphron , Protagoras and - reprinted several times over a century - Politeia ) as well as for the Gifford Lectures on "The Religious Teachers of Greece".

Fonts (selection)

• Platonis Apologia Socratis. With introduction, notes and appendices. University Press, Cambridge 1887.
• Platonis Crito. Edited with introduction, notes and glossary. University Press, Cambridge 1888.
• Platonis Euthyphro. With introduction and notes. University Press, Cambridge 1890.
• The Nuptial Number of Plato. Its solution and significance. CJ Clay, London 1891.
• Platonis Protagoras. With introduction and notes. University Press, Cambridge 1893; Reprinted in 1971. Commentary in the Perseus Project ( perseus.tufts.edu ).
• The Republic of Plato. Edited with critical notes, and an introduction on the text. University Press, Cambridge 1897, second edition 1909.
• The Republic of Plato. Edited with critical notes, commentary and appendices. University Press, Cambridge 1902, Commentary in the Perseus Project ( perseus.tufts.edu ).
  • The Republic of Plato. Edited with critical notes, commentary, and appendices. With a new introduction by DA Rees. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Volume 1: Introduction & Books I – V, ( books.google.de reading sample); Volume 2: Books VI – X and Indexes. 1963, reprints 1965, 1969, 1975, 2009.
• The Religious Teachers of Greece: Being Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Aberdeen. Edited, with a memoir, by his wife Adela Marion Adam. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh 1908 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• The Vitality of Platonism and Other Essays. Edited by his wife Adela Marion Adam. University Press, Cambridge 1911.

literature

• Adela Marion Adam: Memoir. In: The Religious Teachers of Greece. ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
• Adela Marion Adam: Arthur Innes Adam, 1894-1916. A record founded on his letters. Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge 1920, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• David Arthur Rees: Adam's work on the Republic. In: The Republic of Plato. Edited with critical notes, commentary, and appendices. With a new introduction by DA Rees. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Volume 1: Introduction & Books I – V, 1963, xv – xvi, ( books.google.de ).
• Christopher Stray (Ed.): The Owl of Minerva. The Cambridge praelections of 1906. Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall. Cambridge Philological Society, Cambridge 2005 (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supplement 28).
• Robert B. Todd (Ed.): The Dictionary of British Classicists. Bristol 2004.
• Adam, James . 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 1 : Abbey – Challis . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1940, pp. 7 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Sam Addison: James Adam , on: giffordlectures.org ( Memento of July 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• bloomsburyacademic.com: Photographs of the Adam family