LEADER 02824nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910457725203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7486-5338-4 010 $a1-280-95324-1 010 $a9786610953240 010 $a0-7486-2819-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000351223 035 $a(EBL)313195 035 $a(OCoLC)476101816 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000186009 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11174683 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000186009 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10217199 035 $a(PQKB)11143169 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055630 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC313195 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL313195 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10188982 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000351223 100 $a20041111d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJohn Stuart Blackie$b[electronic resource] $eScottish scholar and patriot /$fStuart Wallace 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-1185-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]-334) and index. 327 $aCOVER; 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; 330 $aJohn 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 606 $aIntellectuals$zScotland$vBiography 606 $aEducators$zScotland$vBiography 606 $aAuthors, Scottish$y19th century$vBiography 607 $aScotland$xIntellectual life$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIntellectuals 615 0$aEducators 615 0$aAuthors, Scottish 676 $a941.1081092 700 $aWallace$b Stuart$0940487 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457725203321 996 $aJohn Stuart Blackie$92120905 997 $aUNINA