Gilbert Murray

Sir Gilbert Murray FBA, OM ( born January 2, 1866 in Sydney, † May 20, 1957 ) was a British classical scholar of Australian origin.

At the age of eleven he moved in 1877 with his mother to the UK and studied from 1884 at St John's College, Oxford University, where he was awarded several prizes for his achievements in classical philology. From 1889 to 1899 he was professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow, from 1908 to 1936 at the University of Oxford ( Regius Professor of Greek). Murray worked in particular to the Greek drama and its origins as well as the Greek religion, especially in collaboration with Jane Ellen Harrison and the two other Cambridge Ritualists Francis Macdonald Cornford and Arthur Bernard Cook ( 1868-1952 ). In the English-speaking world, he is also known for his translations of Greek dramas. He was internationally by numerous researchers in close contact, including Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Moellendorff and his student Paul Maas.