Andrew Downes (scholar)
Andrew Downes, also known as Dounaeus (c. 1549 – 2 February 1628), was an English classical scholar.
Life
He was born in the county of Shropshire, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and St. John's College, Cambridge,[1] where he did much to revive the study of Greek, at that time at a very low ebb.[2]
In 1571 he was elected fellow of his college, and, in 1585, he was appointed to the Regius Professor of Greek, which he held for nearly forty years. He died at Coton, near Cambridge, on 2 February 1627/1628. According to Simonds d'Ewes,[3] who attended his lectures on Demosthenes and gives a slight sketch of his personality, Downes was accounted "the ablest Grecian of Christendom."[2]
He published little, but seems to have devoted his chief attention to the Greek orators.
References
- ^ "Downes, Andrew (DWNS567A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Downes, Andrew". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 459.
- ^ Autobiography, ed. J. O. Halliwell, i. pp. 139, 141.
- ^ David McKitterick, A History of Cambridge University Press, vol. 1, Cambridge, 1992, pp. 102-3.
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