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John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895)
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In 1839 was appointed Professor
of Humanity at Marischal College, Aberdeen and in 1860 he achieved his
ambition when he was appointed to the Chair of Greek at the University
of Edinburgh. At Edinburgh he became a charismatic teacher and a popular lecturer on many subjects. He espoused the causes of educational reform and the Gaelic language, and almost single-handed raised the £12,000 needed to endow the new Chair of Celtic at Edinburgh. His death was the occasion for a national day of mourning, and his funeral stopped the City of Edinburgh in its tracks. To the University Library he bequeathed ca 250 volumes of 19th-century Greek books on various subjects from his library. They remain together as a special collection, of which a checklist is available for consultation in the Special Collections Department. |
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