Giorgio Colli

Giorgio Colli

male, deceased (1979)
historian, Philologist, Italian, philosopher, presocratics, pisa…Classicalscholar
Giorgio Colli taught ancient philosophy at Pisa's university for thirty years. A philologist and historian, he edited and translatedAristotle's...
A. E. Housman

A. E. Housman

male, deceased (1936)
Old Bromsgrovian, writer, World War I poet, British, Classicalscholar, gay
Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems "A...
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

male, deceased (1543)
Catholic, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, Muslim, Indian, Indian astronomy, Islamic astronomy…Classicalscholar
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the...
Richard Bentley

Richard Bentley

male, deceased (1742)
Yorkshireman, Literary dunce, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford, Literary dunces, From Yorkshire…Classicalscholar
Richard Bentley was an English theologian, classical scholar and critic.
Gilbert Murray

Gilbert Murray

male, deceased (1957)
Old Merchant Taylor, Classicalscholar, Essayist, Translator, diplomat, British
Gilbert Murray (January 2, 1866 - May 20 1957) was a British classical scholar, known also as a diplomat and public intellectual, with connections...
Isaac Casaubon

Isaac Casaubon

male, deceased (1614)
Anglo-French, Classicalscholar, French, Theologian, Translator, French classical scholar…naturalized English classical scholar, French-born classical scholar
Isaac Casaubon (February 18, 1559-July 1, 1614) was a classical scholar, first in France then later in England, regarded by many at the time as the...
Enoch Powell

Enoch Powell

male, deceased (1998)
English, Former atheists and agnostic, Parkinson's disease, From Wolverhampton, Classicalscholar, Anglican
John Enoch Powell, MBE (June 16 1912 - February 8 1998) was a British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet. He was a...
Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

male, deceased (1794)
English, historian, member of parliament, Old Westminsters, Classicalscholar, Freemason
Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, "The History of the...
Charles Burney

Charles Burney

male, deceased (1817)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Classicalscholar, fanny burney, Scholar, English, British Museum
Charles Burney D.D. (December 4, 1757 - December 28, 1817) was an English classical scholar and clergyman. He was the son of Charles Burney, the...

James Henry

male, deceased (1876)
poet, conservative, Irish, Classicalscholar, author, Conservatism
James Henry (13 December 1798 - 14 July 1876) was an Irish classical scholar, born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Until 1845,...