Niall Rudd

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William John Niall Rudd (* 1927 in Dublin , Irish Free State ; † October 5, 2015 in Wirral near Liverpool ) was a British classical philologist of Irish origin.

life and work

Niall Rudd studied Classical Philology at Trinity College Dublin and then taught Latin in Kingston upon Hull and Manchester . From 1958 to 1968 he was Associate Professor of Latin at University College Toronto . In 1968 he returned to England and taught for five years as Professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool . In 1973 he moved to the University of Bristol on the chair of Latin, which he held until his retirement in 1989. From 1976 to 1979 he was Head of Department of the Department of Classical Philology and Ancient History.

In retirement, Rudd returned to Liverpool and was made an Honorary Research Fellow. Trinity College Dublin awarded him an honorary doctorate (LittD) in 1998 . Rudd died after a long illness ( Alzheimer's disease ) on October 5, 2015 in the St. John Hospice in Wirral .

Rudd dealt intensively with Latin literature, especially Roman poetry, and its reception in modern English literature. He wrote monographs and essays on the satires of the poets Horace and Juvenal , whose work he also presented in English translation. His work on the history of reception appeared in two collections (1994, 2005). In addition, in 1994 he published an autobiographical book about his childhood and youth in Ireland.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Satires of Horace. A study . Cambridge 1966
  • The Satires of Horace and Persius. A verse translation with an introduction and notes . Harmondsworth 1973
  • T. E. Page: Schoolmaster Extraordinary . Bristol 1981
  • Horace, Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones ('Ars Poetica') . Cambridge 1989
  • Juvenal. The satires . Oxford 1991
  • The Classical Tradition in Operation: Chaucer / Virgil, Shakespeare / Plautus, Pope / Horace, Tennyson / Lucretius, Pound / propertius . Toronto 1994
  • Pale green, light orange. A portrait of bourgeois Ireland . Dublin 1994
  • with Robin GM Nisbet : A Commentary on Horace, Odes, Book III . Oxford 2004
  • Horace, Odes and Epodes . Cambridge (Massachusetts) / London 2004 ( Loeb Classical Library )
  • The Common Spring. Essays on Latin and English Poetry . Exeter 2005
  • Lines of Inquiry. Studies in Latin Poetry . Cambridge 2005
  • Samuel Johnson: The Latin Poems . Lewisburg 2005
  • Landor's Latin Poems. Fifty pieces . Lewisburg 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To Irish Rudd family, 1760–1988 . Dublin 1992, p. 71. (English)
  2. ↑ a b c d Professor Niall Rudd, 1927–2015 ( English ) In: bristol.ac.uk . Bristol University News. October 19, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Rudd, Niall
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudd, William John Niall (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical philologist of Irish descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Irish Free State
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2015
Place of death Metropolitan Borough of Wirral , North West England , England , United Kingdom