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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807791903321

Autore

Wallace Stuart

Titolo

John Stuart Blackie : Scottish scholar and patriot / / Stuart Wallace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-7486-5338-4

1-280-95324-1

9786610953240

0-7486-2819-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

941.1081092

Soggetti

Intellectuals - Scotland

Educators - Scotland

Authors, Scottish - 19th century

Scotland Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-334) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; DEDICATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 YOUTH; 2 EXPERIENCE; 3 STRUGGLE; 4 THE BLACKIE CASE; 5 'THE PRO'; 6 'VIVAT BLACKIEAS!!!'; 7 'A CUP OF TEA WITH HOMER'; 8 'PROFESSOR OF THINGS IN GENERAL'; 9 THE SOUTHRONS; 10 'FRIEND OF THE CROFTER'; 11 EMERITUS; EPILOGUE. 'TONALD SHAW'; SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

Sommario/riassunto

John Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe's Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standa