Wallace Lindsay
Wallace Martin Lindsay classical scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a palaeographer. He was Professor of Humanity at University of St Andrews.
Biography
Lindsay was born in
fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
, from 1880 to 1899, when he was appointed as Professor of Humanity (as the professorship in Latin was called) at the University of St Andrews.
Lindsay wrote numerous studies, covering a range of topics in
Latin from the works of Plautus and Martial to the development of medieval Latin. Some of his books were translated into French and German.[2] He also wrote articles in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica and notes on the palaeography of the Cathach of St. Columba.[3]
He pioneered the study of Latin and Celtic words. Through prolific scholarship and editing a large number of texts, including Plautus, Terence, Martial in the OCT, and Festus, and Nonius Marcellus in Teubner editions, he influenced almost every area of Latin research.[4]
He received an
LLD) from the University of Glasgow in April 1902.[5]
Lindsay died at St Andrews[6] after a collision with a motor bike.[7]
See also
References
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34547. Retrieved 9 November 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Professor Wallace Lindsay – A Great Humanist". The Times. 22 February 1937. p. 19.
- ^ Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy / Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann, 1916.
- ^ John Henderson, The medieval world of Isidore of Seville, p. 212 f.
- ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36749. London. 23 April 1902. p. 7.
- ^ GROS data 453/00 0022.
- ^ Correspondence between Seton Gordon and Francis Cameron Head, Lochaber Archives D36.
External links
Works related to W. M. Lindsay at Wikisource- Portraits of Wallace Lindsay at the National Portrait Gallery, London
