02899nam 2200661Ia 450 991080779190332120240416103452.00-7486-5338-41-280-95324-197866109532400-7486-2819-310.1515/9780748628193(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 Scottish scholar and patriot /Stuart Wallace1st ed.Edinburgh 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 Stuart1633402MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807791903321John Stuart Blackie3973147UNINA