John Stuart Blackie

John Stuart Blackie (about 1845)

John Stuart Blackie , (born July 28, 1809 in Glasgow , † March 2, 1895 in Edinburgh ) was a Scottish philologist , poet , writer and university professor .

Life

Blackie attended the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, studied German literature and classical philology in Göttingen and Berlin from 1829–30 . During this time he got to know Heeren , Schleiermacher , Neander , Karl Otfried Müller and August Boeckh .

Then he toured Italy together with Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen . In 1841 he became professor of Latin at Marishall College in Aberdeen, and in 1852 professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh . In 1882 he retired. In 1853 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Translation of Goethe's Faust (1834)
Translation of Aeschylus (Edinb. 1852);
Pronunciation of Greek, accent and quantity (1852);
Discourse on beauty, with an exposure of the theory of beauty according to Plato (1858)
Homer and the Iliad (1866, 4 vols.)
Horae hellenicae, essays and discussions on some important points of Greek philology and antiquity (1874)
Lays and legends of ancient Greece with other poems (2nd ed. 1880)
Poems, chiefly on Greek mythology (1857)
Lyrical poems, English and Latin (1860)
Musa burschicosa (1869), a collection of Scottish student songs
War songs of the Germans (1870);
Lays of the highlands and islands (1872);
Songs of religion and life (1876)
The wisdom of Goethe (1883).
On democracy (1867) and following it:
The constitutional association on forms of government (Manchester 1867)
Political tracts (1868)
Four phases of morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism (1871, 2nd ed. 1874)
Essay on selfculture, intellectual, physical and moral (1873, 2nd ed. 1880)
Natural history of atheism (1877)
The wisemen of Greece, a series of dramatic dialogues (1877)
Lay sermons (1881) and two volumes
Essays (1890, 2 volumes)
Language and literature of the Scottish highlands (1876);
Altavona. Fact and fiction from life in the highlands (3rd ed. 1883)
The Scottish highlanders and the landlaws (1884)
Scottish song, its wealth, wisdom etc. (1889)

Prussia in the Nineteenth Century, The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXIX, December 1876 / May 1877.
The Scot, The Contemporary Review, Vol.XXXIII, August 1878.
Landlords and Land Laws, The Contemporary Review, Vol.XXXVII, January / June 1880.
Problem of the Homeric Poems, The Contemporary Review, Vol.XXXVIII, July / December 1880.
The Philosophy of the Beautiful, The Contemporary Review, Vol.XLIII, January / June, 1883.
Shakespeare and Modern Greek, The Nineteenth Century, Vol.XXX, July / December, 1891.
John Knox, The Contemporary Review, Vol.LXII, August 1892.
The Method of Teaching Languages, The Contemporary Review, Vol.LXVII, January / June 1895.
Modern Greece, The Forum, March 1897.

Stuart Wallace: John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot. Edinburgh University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7486-1185-0 , (excerpts online) .

^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 3. Leipzig 1905, p. 13
^ Death of John Stuart Blackie; The Life Related in the Works of Scotland's Great Scholar, The New York Times, March 3, 1895.
^ Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 9, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Blackie, John Stuart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Scottish philologist, poet, writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1895
Place of death	Edinburgh