Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet, Gilbert Arthur Highet actually ( born June 22, 1906 in Glasgow, Scotland, † January 20, 1978 in New York, United States) was an American classical scholar of Scottish origin.

Life

Highet was a son of Superintenden of Telegraphs for the West of Scotland. He attended Hillhead High School and then studied at the University of Glasgow. After reaching the Master of Arts in 1928, he transferred to Balliol College, Oxford. There he studied until 1932 under Cyril Bailey, Maurice Bowra and Gilbert Murray. During his studies there, Highet founded the Oxford Experimental Theatre Society, and for these two plays.

On September 22, 1932 Highet married in the Memorial Chapel of the University of Glasgow its Komilitonin Helen MacInnes and had with her ​​a son, Keith, who came in the summer of 1933 in Oxford to the world. From this time Highet was at St. John 's College; 1933 to 1937 as a tutor and Fellow.

In 1937, Highet up an appointment at the Columbia University (New York). He worked among others there with Moses Hadas together. As with his support, his contract was turned into a permanent position, Highet left his wife and his son meet. Throughout his life he remained connected to this university; with the exception of 1941-1946 when he served as a British citizen in the British Army.

In 1946, Highet back to New York and began work at Columbia University again. Since he was not going along with his family, again to go back to Scotland, he applied for U.S. citizenship and got it in 1951 also awarded.

In addition to his academic work had Highet 1952-1954 as a literary critic of the magazine Harper 's Magazine. In 1958 they picked him in the editorship of the magazine Horizon Magazine, where he among other things, for 19 years was responsible for the feuilleton. As early as 1954 he had been elected to the jury of the Book-of - Month Club and remained there until his death.

With over 71 years Gilbert Highet died on January 20, 1978 in New York to his cancer.

Works (selection)

  • The anatomy of satire. University Press, Princeton, N. J. 1972, ISBN 0-691-01306-3.
  • The classical tradition. Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature. Oxford University Press, New York, 1985, ISBN 0-19-500206-7 ( Nachdr d ed Oxford 1949).
  • Lead, teach, instruct. Educate as art ( "The art of teaching" ). Klett, Stuttgart 1962.
  • The immortal profession. The joys of Teaching and Learning. Weybright & Talley, New York, 1976, ISBN 0-679-40130- X.
  • Juvenal, the satirist. A study. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1960.
  • Man's unconquerable min. University Press, New York 1954.
  • An outline of Homer. Gollancz, London, 1935.
  • People, Places and books. 6th ed Oxford University Press, New York 1969.
  • Roman Arcadia. Poets and their landscape ( " Poets in the landscape" ). Goldmann, Munich 1964 ( Catullus, Virgil, Propertius, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, Juvenal ).
  • The speeches of Virgil 's Aeneid. University Press, New York 1972, ISBN 0 - 691-06234 -X.
  • The unpublished lectures of Gilbert Highet Lang, New York 1998, ISBN 0-8204-3824-3 ( edited by Robert Ball).
  • Gustav Mayer, Friedrich Engels. A biography ( " Friedrich Engels "). Knopf, New York 1936.
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