Robert Gregg Bury

Robert Gregg Bury (born March 22, 1869 in Clontibret , County Monaghan , Ireland , † February 11, 1951 in Cambridge , England ) was a British clergyman, classical philologist and researcher in the field of ancient philosophy and translator of Plato's works into English.

Bury, the son of an Anglican clergyman and brother of the historian John Bagnell Bury , studied Classics at Trinity College in Cambridge , where he obtained his MA in 1890 , and in 1910 he received his Litt. D. awarded. He was a Bishop Berkeley Fellow at Owens College in Manchester from 1893 to 1894 and lecturer in Classics at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania , USA, from 1894 to 1895 . He then turned entirely to the career as an Anglican clergyman, was ordained a priest in 1897 and worked in various parishes of the Church of England until 1928 , including 1903 to 1918 as a vicar in Trumpington near Cambridge. In 1922 he applied unsuccessfully as Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge .

After Bury had made a name for himself with comments on the Philebos and the Symposium of Plato, he wrote translations of Plato's works ( Kritias , Kleitophon , Menexenos , Letters, Timaeus , Nomoi ) and the writings of the imperial philosopher Sextus Empiricus for the Loeb Classical Library . He devoted a later work to the Logos concept of the Gospel of John .

The Gregg Bury Prize for essays in the philosophy of religion at Cambridge University goes back to him .

Fonts (selection)

• The Philebus of Plato. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Appendices. University Press, Cambridge 1897, online .
• The Symposium of Plato. Edited with Introduction, Critical Notes and Commentary. W. Heffer and Sons, Cambridge 1909, online .
• Plato, with an English translation. Volume IX: Timaeus. Critias. Cleitophon. Menexenus. Epistles. Harvard University Press, 1929 (Loeb Classical Library, 234)
• Plato, with an English translation. Volume X-XI: Laws . In two volumes.
  • Part I: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., William Heinemann, London 1926 (Loeb Classical Library, 187), online .
  • Part II: William Heinemann, London, GP Putnam's, New York 1926 (Loeb Classical Library, 192), online .
• Sextus Empiricus. In four volumes. With an English translation
  • Vol. 1: Outlines of pyrrhonism. Harvard University Press, 1933 (Loeb Classical Library, 273)
  • Vol. 2: Against the logicians. Harvard University Press, 1935 (Loeb Classical Library, 291)
  • Vol. 3: Against the physicists. Against the ethicists. Harvard University Press, 1936 (Loeb Classical Library, 311)
  • Vol. 4: Against the professors. Harvard University Press, 1949 (Loeb Classical Library, 382)
• The Fourth gospel and the logos-doctrine. W. Heffer & Sons, Cambridge 1940.

literature

• Robert B. Todd (Ed.): The Dictionary of British Classicists. Volume 1, Bristol 2004, pp. 135-136.

Web links

• Gregg Bury Prize