Peter Giles (philologist)
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Peter Giles (20 October 1860 – 17 September 1935) was a Scottish
Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
.
Life
Peter Giles was born at
first class in both parts of the Classical Tripos
and in the second class in history.
After attending the lectures of
Neo-grammarians to England in his only publication, A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students, published in 1895 and subsequently translated into German
.
Giles succeeded
comparative philology
at Cambridge in 1891, a position he retained until his death.
Giles served as the Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1910 until 1935 and as
Vice-Chancellor from 1919 to 1920. He died in Cambridge
, aged 74.
References
- ^ "Giles, Peter (GLS882P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
External links
- Works by or about Peter Giles at Internet Archive
- Works by or about Peter Giles at Wikisource
- Portrait of Peter Giles
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Preceded by | Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1911-1935 |
Succeeded by Thomas Shirley Hele |
Preceded by | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1919-1920 |
Succeeded by Edmund Courtenay Pearce |
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