Colin Hardie

Colin Graham Hardie ( born February 16, 1906 in Edinburgh, Scotland, † October 17, 1998 in Chichester, West Sussex ) was a British classical scholar.

Life

Colin Hardie was the third son of Professor William Ross Hardie (1862-1916, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and "Professor of Humanity " at the University of Edinburgh), and Isabella Watt Hardie (nee Stevenson ). Colin Hardie attended the Edinburgh Academy, a free school. His older brother William Francis Ross Hardie (1902-1990) was from 1950 to 1969 President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Since 1940, Hardie was with the Christian Viola Mary Lucas ( 1910-2001, daughter of Percival Lucas) married, they had two sons, Anthony and Nicholas, who in 1950 for Christmas a copy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( The king of Narnia ) by CS Lewis, a friend of his father, received a personal message. "Nicholas Hardie, with love from Jack Lewis. " This book was sold at auction July 19, 2012 at auction for £ 8,000.

1927 Colin Hardie won the Gaisford Prize for Greek prose. From 1928 to 1929 he was at Oxford, and from 1933 to 1936 director of the British School at Rome first Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College. From 1967 to 1973 he worked as a Fellow and Tutor in Classics and from 1967 also as a public orator ( public speaker ) at Magdalen College, Oxford University. He was, as JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Nevill Coghill and Hugo Dyson, a member of the Association of " Inklings ".

Writings

• Colin Hardie: Dante 's Comedy as self- analysis and integration. In 1959.
• Colin Hardie: Vitae Vergilianae Antiquae: Donati vita, vita Servii, Probiana vita, vita Focae, p Hieronymi Excerpta. Oxford University Press, London, 1966.
• Colin Hardie: The Georgics: a transitional poem. Abbey Press, Abingdon 1971.