John Stuart Blackie

John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895) was a Scottish scholar, a man of versatile gifts and warm human sympathies, born in Glasgow. He was bred to the bar, but he devoted himself to literary pursuits. He studied German and executed a metrical translation of Goethe's "Faust," Part I. He filled the chair of Humanity in Aberdeen, and afterwards that of Greek in Edinburgh. He was a zealous educational reformer. He took an active interest in everything affecting the welfare and honour of Scotland. He founded a Celtic Chair in Edinburgh University. He spoke much and wrote much in his day on manifold subjects, including on Æschylus, and Homer's "Iliad" in verse. Among his works, which are numerous, "Self-Culture" is the most likely to survive him longest.

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