Lindsay, Wallace

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Name
Lindsay, Wallace Gender: M
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)
Data source
Quoted BC/BR
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Wright
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_aqucol.18.gif 23°24' s_mo.18.gif s_aqucol.18.gif 05°02 Asc.s_aricol.18.gif 01°57'



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.

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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