Benjamin Jowett

Benjamin Jowett ( born April 15, 1817 in Camberwell, † October 1, 1893 in Oxford ) was an English theologian and philologist. He edited and translated numerous authors of classical antiquity, including Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle.

Jowett was at Balliol College, Oxford University worked from 1855 as a master. Under his rectorship Balliol rose to one of the first places among the Oxford colleges on. He counted from 1860 to the close friends of Florence Nightingale and have been involved together with her on reform efforts in British India.

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