02902nam 2200649Ia 450 991078445460332120230828222254.00-7486-5338-41-280-95324-197866109532400-7486-2819-310.1515/9780748628193(CKB)1000000000351223(EBL)313195(OCoLC)476101816(SSID)ssj0000186009(PQKBManifestationID)11174683(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000186009(PQKBWorkID)10217199(PQKB)11143169(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055630(MiAaPQ)EBC313195(Au-PeEL)EBL313195(CaPaEBR)ebr10188982(DE-B1597)614340(DE-B1597)9780748628193(EXLCZ)99100000000035122320041111d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn Stuart Blackie[electronic resource] Scottish scholar and patriot /Stuart WallaceEdinburgh Edinburgh University Press20061 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-1185-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-334) and index.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; 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 standaIntellectualsScotlandBiographyEducatorsScotlandBiographyAuthors, Scottish19th centuryBiographyScotlandIntellectual life19th centuryIntellectualsEducatorsAuthors, Scottish941.1081092Wallace Stuart1525470MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784454603321John Stuart Blackie3766882UNINA