George Long (scholar)
George Long ( * November 4th, 1800 in Poulton -le- Fylde, Lancashire, † August 10, 1879 in Chichester ) was an English classical scholar and scholars of antiquity.
Life
Long was the eldest son of the merchant James Long. He attended school in Macclesfield and studied since 1818 at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was in 1821 Thomas Babington Macaulay and together with Henry Maiden Craven University Scholar, earned a bachelor's degree in 1822 and was honored in the same year as assistant to the chancellor. From 1823 to 1827 he was a Fellow working at Trinity College in 1825 and earned a Master. In 1824 he was elected professor of ancient languages at the newly established University of Virginia in Charlottesville, but returned after four years as the first professor of Greek at the newly founded University of London back in England, where he worked until 1831. In 1837 he was admitted at the Inner Temple.
In 1842 he followed for four years Thomas Hewitt Key according to a professor of Latin at University College; from 1846-1849 he taught in Jurisprudence and Civil Law at the Middle Temple, and finally from 1849 to 1871 ancient history at Brighton College. After his retirement he lived in Port Field, Chichester, from 1873 he moved into his exposed Gladstone annual pension of £ 100
Long was one of the founders in 1830 of the Royal Geographical Society, of which he was a leading member of twenty years. In addition, he was also active in the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge act, for which he quarterly the Journal of Education and more of those books published from 1831 to 1835. He was first out with Charles Knight, then alone the Penny Cyclopaedia and the Knight 's Political Dictionary. In 1837, he belonged to a member of the London-based Society for Central Education.
He added the relevant Roman law articles on Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, and also wrote articles for the also published by Smith biography and geography encyclopedias, the posts are marked with his initials GL. His name, however, is mostly known as the editor of the series Bibliotheca Classica, with the texts of the ancient writers were published, together with an English commentary for the first time. Here he was in the years 1851 to 1862 in four volumes specifically the issues of Cicero's De oratore at.
1881 was donated to his honor the George Long Prize. Long was married three times, with his first wife, Harriet, widow of Joseph Selden, he had a daughter, but already died at a young age, and four sons.
Works (selection)
In addition to further work Long publications include:
- Summary of Herodotus (1829 )
- Works of Herodotus (1830-1833) (Editor)
- Xenophon 's Anabasis (1831 ) (Editor)
- Revision edited by JA Macleane spending the Satires of Juvenal and of the works of Persius ( 1867) and Horace (1869 )
- Civil Wars of Rome
- Translation (along with Aubrey Stewart) and notes on thirteen volumes of Plutarch 's Vitae ( 1844-1848 )
- Translation of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (1862 )
- Translation of the Doctrinal Discussions ( Discourses ) of Epictetus (1877 )
- Decline of the Roman Republic (1864-1874), 5 volumes
See also H. J. Matthews: In Memoriam, Reprinted from the Brighton College Magazine, in 1879.