Extracts from the testmonials of John Stuart Blackie
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Release : 1852
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Release : 1852
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Author : Stuart Wallace
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748628193
John Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe's Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was equally central. But Blackie was also a great 'public man', corresponding with great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their contemporary survival and unique status. Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895.
Author : John Stuart Blackie
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1852
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Author : Marcius Willson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2023-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387058632
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Author : John Stuart Blackie
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Self-culture
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Author : Anna M. Stoddart
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 1895
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Author : Isaac Watson Dyer
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Page : 618 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1928
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 1878
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Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Page : 874 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 1867
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Page : 894 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Arts
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