Thomas Gale
Thomas Gale (* 1635? In Scruton , Yorkshire ; † April 7 or 8, 1702 in York ) was an English classical philologist and cleric .
Life
Gale was the son of Christopher Gale and his wife Frances (nee Conyers). He attended Westminster School and then from May 23, 1655 Trinity College , Cambridge . There he first became a Fellow , and finally in 1666 Regius Professor of Greek . In 1672 he was made high master of Saint Paul's School , in 1676 a canon of St Paul's Cathedral , in 1677 a member of the Royal Society and in 1697 Dean of York. As a philologist, Gale has edited and commented on various mythographic writings and Greek and Latin authors. In a history of philosophy (1670) he introduced the term Neo-Platonism for late antique Platonism . However, his main merit is the collection and edition of ancient sources on early English history . Gale to the author of the inscription on the London monument to be where the Catholics are accused of the Great Fire of having caused.
Gale was married to Barbara (daughter of Roger Pepys from Impington, Cambridgeshire). They had several sons Roger Gale († 25 June 1744) and Charles Gale (1677-1738), Samuel Gale (1682-1754) and Thomas Gale and a daughter Elizabeth (* 1687), which later became the second wife of William Stukeley was . He was buried in York Minster.
Fonts
As editor
- Opuscula mythologica physica et ethica. Graece et latine. Seriem eorum sistit pagina praefationem proxime sequens. Wetstein, Amsterdam 1675, also 1688.
- Historiae poeticae Scriptores antiqui. Muguet-Scott, Paris 1675.
- Iamblichi : Liber de mysteriis Aegyptiorum. 1678.
- Ψαλτήριον. Psaltery. Juxta exemplar Alexandrinum editio nova, Græce & Latine. Sheldon, Oxford 1678.
- Rerum Anglicarum Scriptorum Veterum. Sheldon, Oxford 1684.
- Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Quinque. Sheldon, Oxford 1687 ( Rerum Anglicarum scriptores veteres, 2).
- Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae Scriptores XV. Sheldon, Oxford 1691 ( Rerum Anglicarum scriptores veteres. 3).
literature
- JEB Mayor: Cambridge in the Time of Queen Anne. Pp. 448-450.
- Gale, Thomas . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 11 : Franciscans - Gibson . London 1910, p. 398 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Gale, Thomas . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751 , volume 2 : Dabbs-Juxton . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1922, pp. 188 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Gordon Goodwin: Gale, Thomas (1635? -1702) . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 20: Forrest - Garner. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1889, pp. 378 - 380 (English).
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Gale in the catalog of the German National Library
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| James Valentine |
Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University 1666–1672 |
John North |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gale, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1635 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scruton |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1702 or April 8, 1702 |
| Place of death | York |