John Edwin Sandys
Sir John Edwin Sandys [ sændz ] (born May 19, 1844 in Leicester , † July 6, 1922 in Cambridge ) was a classical philologist .
Life
His parents were Timothy Sandys, Reverend of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), and Rebecca née Swain. Since his father was a missionary, he lived in India until the age of eleven and went to school in Calcutta (he spoke Hindustani and Bengali as a boy), then returned to England , where he was the children's home and the school of the Church Missionary Society Islington and then attended the Repton School . In 1863 he received a scholarship to St John's College , Cambridge .
In 1867 he was elected a fellow at his college, received a teaching post, and later became a tutor. In 1876 he was elected Public Orator , a title that was changed to Orator Emeritus on his retirement in 1919 .
He received honorary doctorates from Dublin University (1892), Edinburgh University (1909), Athens University (1912) and Oxford University (1920). In 1909 he became a Fellow of the British Academy and was in command of the Greek Order of the Redeemer ( Greek Τάγμα του Σωτήρος), the highest honor of the Greek government. In 1911 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor .
He wrote a number of books on Greek oratory, a book about his travels in Greece, and is best known for his History of Classical Scholarship .
In 1880 he married Mary Grainger, daughter of the Vicar of St Paul's Church in Cambridge. The marriage remained childless.
He wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica .
As a missionary student, his older brother was a victim of the Indian uprising in 1857.
Fonts
- A history of classical scholarship, 3 volumes, Yale University Press 1903, 1908, Volume 1, Archives , Volume 2, Archives , Volume 3, Archives
- Roger Bacon, Proc. British Academy 1914, Archives
- The rhetoric of Aristotle, with a commentary by Edward Meredith Cope , Revised and edited by John Edwin Sandys, Cambridge UP 1877, Reprint Hildesheim: Olms 2006 (2 volumes), Cambridge UP 2010 (3 volumes)
- Harvard Lectures on the revival of learning , Cambridge UP 1905
- A companion of latin studies , Cambridge UP 1910
- An eastern vacation in Greece, with lists of books on greek travel and topography and time-tables of greek steamers and railways, London, Macmillan 1887, Archive
- Oratores et epistulae Cantabrigienses (1876–1909), Macmillan 1910, Archives
- The odes of Pindar, London: Heinemann 1915, Archives
literature
- NGL Hammond: Sir John Edwin Sandys. Cambridge UP 1933 (with excerpts from diaries and letters during his travels in Greece)
Web links
- Literature by and about John Edwin Sandys in the catalog of the German National Library
- wikisource
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sandys, John Edwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leicester |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1922 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |