Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram
Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram (born January 22, 1904 in Sherborne , Dorset , † January 3, 1993 in London ) was a British classical philologist .
Life
Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram was a son of Rear Admiral Charles William Winnington-Ingram and his wife Ida Vere Maude (nee Chambers). The Anglican Bishop Arthur Winnington-Ingram was his uncle.
Winnington-Ingram attended Clifton College and studied at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge . He was then a lecturer at Manchester University . From 1934 to 1948 he was Reader in Classics at Birkbeck College of the University of London , from 1948 to 1953 Professor of Classics at Westfield College and from 1953 until his retirement in 1971 Professor of Greek Language and Literature at King's College London , whose fellow he was in 1969 . During his time at King's College, from 1964 to 1967, he was also director of the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London. He was also President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (1959 to 1962) and the London Classical Society. The University of Glasgow awarded him an honorary doctorate . In 1958 he was elected a member of the British Academy . In his later years he made several trips to the United States , where he taught as a visiting professor in Austin , Texas and at Boston University .
Winnington-Ingram was married to Mary Cousins from 1938 until her death in 1992.
Research priorities
Winnington-Ingram was a leading British researcher on Greek tragedy and ancient Greek music . He published pioneering studies on the Bacchae of Euripides , Sophocles and Aeschylus . In the field of ancient music, in addition to a study of the ancient Greek keys , he edited the work On the Music of Aristeides Quintilianus .
In 1953 Winnington-Ingram also initiated King's College Greek Play , the annual production of an ancient Greek drama by students at King's College London.
Publications (selection)
- Mode in Ancient Greek Music (1936)
- Euripides and Dionysus (1948)
- (Ed.): Aristidis Quintiliani De musica libri tres (1963)
- Sophocles. An interpretation (1980)
- Studies in Aeschylus (1983)
literature
- ML West : Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 84 , 1994, pp. 579-597 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).
Web links
- Patricia E. Easterling : Obituary: Professor RP Winnington-Ingram , in: The Independent , January 23, 1993
- Entry in the archives of King's College London
- King's College London: Greek Play (including History of the Greek Play and Greek Play Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Melville Henry Massue : The Plantagenet roll of the blood royal; being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England. 1905, p. 269.
- ^ Melville Henry Massue: The Plantagenet roll of the blood royal; being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England. 1905, p. 596.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winnington-Ingram, Reginald Pepys |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sherborne , Dorset |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1993 |
| Place of death | London |