John Wight Duff

John Wight Duff FBA (born September 4, 1866 in Dundee , † December 9, 1944 in Durham ) was a Scottish classical philologist .

Life

John Wight Duff studied Classical Philology at the Universities of Aberdeen , Oxford and Leipzig . In 1886 he achieved the Masters degree at Oxford. From 1891 to 1893 he worked as Assistant Professor of Greek at the University of Aberdeen, where he earned his second master's degree. From 1893 to 1898 he was Professor of Classics and English at Armstrong College in Newcastle. From 1898 until his retirement (1933) he was Professor of Classics at the University of Durham . In 1935/1936 he was Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley .

John Wight Duff dealt with wide areas of Latin literature. He wrote a two-volume literary history that was reprinted several times, as well as studies on Roman satire. In his later years he wrote his studies together with his son and student Arnold Mackay Duff .

Duff was an elected member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (since June 1923), the British Academy (since 1931), Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford University, had a PhD D.Litt. (Oxford) and LL.D. (Aberdeen) and received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Durham. Until his death he was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne , whose president he was still in old age.

Fonts (selection)

• A Literary History of Rome . Two volumes, London 1909–1910. Second revised edition, New York 1960. Third edition, London 1964
• Martial, realism and sentiment in the epigram . Leeds 1929
• Minor Latin poets . Two volumes, London / Cambridge (Massachusetts) 1934–1935 ( Loeb Classical Library 284, 334). Numerous reprints
• Roman satire: its outlook on social life . Berkeley 1936. Reprinted by Hamden 1964

literature

• The Durham University Journal . Volume 36/37 (1944), p. 115