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See also:BASIL LANNEAU See also:GILDERSLEEVE (1831– ) , See also:American classical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Charleston, See also:South Carolina, on the 23rd of See also:October 1831, son of See also:Benjamin See also:Gildersleeve (1791–1875) a Presbyterian evangelist, and editor of the Charleston See also:Christian Observer in 1826–1845, of the See also:Richmond (Va.) Watchman and Observer in 1845–1856, and of The Central Presbyterian in 1856–186o . The son graduated at See also:Princeton in 1849, studied under See also:Franz in See also:Berlin, under See also:Friedrich See also:Ritschl at See also:Bonn and under See also:Schneidewin at See also:Gottingen, where he received his See also:doctor's degree in 18J3 . From 1856 to 1876 he was See also:professor of See also:Greek in the University of See also:Virginia, holding the See also:chair of Latin also in 1861–1866; and in 1876 he became professor of Greek in the newly founded Johns See also:Hopkins University . In 188o The American See also:Journal of See also:Philology, a quarterly published by the Johns Hopkins University, was established under his editorial See also:charge, and his strong See also:personality was expressed in the See also:department of the Journal headed " Brief See also:Report " or " Lanx Satura," and in the earliest years of its publication every See also:petty detail was in his hands . His See also:style in it, as elsewhere, is in striking contrast to that of the typical classical scholar, and accords with his conviction that the true aim of scholarship is " that which is." He published a Latin See also:Grammar (1867; revised with the co-operation of Gonzalez B . See also:Lodge, 1894 and 1899) and a Latin See also:Series for use in secondary See also:schools (1875), both marked by lucidity of See also:order and mastery of grammatical theory and methods . His edition of See also:Persius (1895) is of See also:great value . But his See also:bent was rather toward Greek than Latin . His See also:special See also:interest in Christian Greek was partly the cause of his editing in 1877 The Apologies of See also:Justin See also:Martyr, " which " (to use his own words) " I used unblushingly as a repository for my syntactical formulae." Gildersleeve's studies under Franz had no doubt quickened his interest in Greek syntax, and his See also:logic, untrammelled by previous categories, and his marvellous sympathy with the See also:language were displayed in this most unlikely of places . His Syntax of Classic Greek (See also:Part I., 1900, with C . W . E . See also:Miller)collects these formulae . Gildersleeve edited in 1885 The Olympian and Pythian Odes of See also:Pindar, with a brilliant and valuable introduction . His views on the See also:function of grammar were summarized in a See also:paper on The Spiritual Rights of See also:Minute See also:Research delivered at Bryn Mawr on the 16th of See also:June 1891 . His collected contributions to See also:literary See also:periodicals appeared in 1890 under the See also:title Essays and Studies Educational and Literary . |
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