John Stuart Blackie [[electronic resource] ] : Scottish scholar and patriot / / Stuart Wallace

• Autore: Wallace Stuart
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 941.1081092
• Soggetto topico: Intellectuals - Scotland; Educators - Scotland; Authors, Scottish - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Scotland Intellectual life 19th century
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: John Stuart Blackie
• ISBN: 0-7486-5338-4; 1-280-95324-1; 9786610953240; 0-7486-2819-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784454603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II