Lindsay, Wallace
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Birthname | Wallace Martin Lindsay | ||||
born on | 12 February 1858 at 08:45 (= 08:45 AM ) | ||||
Place | Pittenweem, Scotland, 56n12, 2w44 | ||||
Timezone | GMT h0e (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
Wallace Lindsay was an important classical scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a palaeographer. He was Professor of Humanity (Latin) at St Andrews University. 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.
Events
Source Notes
Paul Wright quotes birth record
Categories
- Personal : Death : Accidental (Collision with a motor bike)
- Vocation : Education : Teacher (Professor of Latin)
- Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction