William Young Sellar

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William Young Sellar

William Young Sellar (born February 22, 1825 Morvich , Sutherlandshire , † October 12, 1890 in Dalry , Dumfries and Galloway ) was a Scottish classical scholar .

Life

After studying at Edinburgh Academy and then Glasgow University , he went to Balliol College, Oxford . He was elected fellow at Oriel College , Oxford, and after assistant professorships at the Universities of Durham , Glasgow and St Andrews , he was appointed full professor of Greek at St Andrews in 1857 . In 1863 he was appointed Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh , where he remained until his death. In 1864 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Sellar was considered one of the most brilliant classical scholars of his time and was remarkably successful in his endeavors to raise the spirit rather than the letters of Roman literature.

Fonts

  • The Roman Poets of the Republic (3rd edition, 1889)
  • The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age ( Virgil , 3rd edition, 1897)
  • Thrace and the Elegiac Poets (2nd edition by WP Ker, 1899), with a memorandum by Andrew Lang .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 7, 2020 .