H. J. Rose

Herbert Jennings Rose FBA ( born May 5, 1883 in Orillia, Ontario, † July 31, 1961 in St Andrews, Scotland ) was a British philologist Classic Canadian origin.

Life

Herbert Jennings Rose, the son of a Methodist clergyman, studied classics at McGill University, where he attained a Bachelor degree in 1904. He then went as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and furthered his studies. Here he won the 1907 Chancellor's Latin Essay Prize (1907 ), presented a second bachelor exam ( Balliol College, 1907) and was hired as a Fellow at Exeter College. In 1911 he returned to Canada and taught as an Associate Professor of Classics at McGill University.

After his participation in the First World War, Rose remained until his death in the UK. He taught from 1919 as a professor of Latin at Aberystwyth University, and from 1927 as a professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews (1953 emeritus). 1954 awarded him an honorary doctorate by the University.

Herbert J. Rose deal especially with the Greek and Latin literature of antiquity, for which he edited English-language manuals. However, his greatest interest was the myths and legends research. He collected Greek, Roman and Celtic legends, was 1932-1935 President of the Folklore Society from 1932 to 1952 and President of the Scottish Anthropological Society. His most famous work is A Handbook of Greek mythology ( in 1928 ), which was repeatedly applied and translated into several languages.

His international reputation brought Rose numerous honors one, including the appointment of a corresponding member of the Istituto Lombardo di scienze e lettere (1932) and the British Academy (1934 ), visiting professor at Harvard (1935 ), the foreign member of the Royal Humanist Society in Lund (1935 ), for Sather Professor (1939 ), an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College (1944 ) and foreign member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences ( 1951).