Myles Dillon

Myles Dillon (born May 11, 1900 in Dublin , † June 18, 1972 ) was an Irish Celtologist .

Life

Myles Dillon was one of six children of the Irish politician John Dillon (1851-1927). The politician James Dillon was his brother. He studied at University College Dublin with Osborn Bergin , in France with Joseph Vendryes and from 1922 to 1925 in Germany (Bonn, Berlin, Heidelberg) with Rudolf Thurneysen (Bonn), Julius Pokorny (Berlin), Heinrich Zimmer (Heidelberg) and Ferdinand, among others Johann Sommer (Bonn). In particular, he studied Old Irish, Sanskrit and Indo-European Philology. From 1928 he taught Sanskrit and comparative philology at Trinity College (Dublin) and from 1930 to 1937 at University College Dublin before going to the USA, where he taught at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and in 1946/47 at the University of Chicago . He also taught in Edinburgh . He then returned to Dublin, where he taught at the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and was its director from 1960 to 1968.

In addition to Celtic studies and popular scientific works about the Celts, he also pursued the common Indo-European cultural roots of Indians and Celts at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Simla .

The Graecist and philosopher John M. Dillon is his son.

He was the editor of Celtica magazine .

Fonts

• with Nora Kershaw Chadwick : The Celts: from prehistory to the Norman invasion , Kindler's cultural history , 1967 (Original: The Celtic Realms , Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1967)
• The Cycles of the Kings , Oxford University Press, 1946, reprinted 1994 (Four Courts Press)
• Early Irish Literature , University of Chicago Press, 1948, reprinted 1994 (Four Courts Press)
• Published by the Early Irish Society , Dublin 1963
• Irish Sagas , Dublin, Published for Radio Éireann by the Stationery Office, 1959
• Lebor na Cert . The Book of Rights , Dublin, Irish Texts Society, 1962 (as translator and commentator)
• Celts and Aryans: Survivals of Indoeuropean Speech and Society , Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla 1975
• with Donncha Ó Cróinín Teach yourself Irish , English Universities Press, London 1961
• Nominal Predicates in Irish , Halle 1928

literature

• John M. Dillon, Joachim Fischer (Eds.) The correspondence of Myles Dillon 1922-1925. Irish-German Relations and Celtic Studies , Four Courts Press, Dublin 1999, ISBN 1-85182-409-X (including letters between him and his father)
• Entry in Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 , pp.?.

Web links

• bibliography