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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Stuart.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895.

Blackie, John Stuart.

Intellectuals--Scotland--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Educators--Scotland--Biography.

Educators.

Authors, Scottish--19th century--Biography.

Authors, Scottish.

Scotland--Intellectual life--19th century.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-7486-5338-4

1-280-95324-1

9786610953240

0-7486-2819-3

OCLC:

476101816