Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro

Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro ( born October 29, 1819 in Elgin, † March 30, 1885 in Rome) was a British philologist Classic.

Life

Hugh AJ Munro was the illegitimate son of the art collector Hugh Munro of Novar Andrew Johnstone ( 1797-1864 ). He attended Shrewsbury School, where she learned Latin and Greek at Benjamin Hall Kennedy. Then Munro studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he then began his academic career. In 1843 he was appointed Fellow and had thus a fixed position at the College. In 1869 he was appointed to the newly established Chair of Latin studies, but in 1872 he retired.

Munro's first publication were the logic of Aristotle, on which he held his first lectures in Cambridge. He dedicated his life's work, however, the Greek and especially Latin poetry ( he wrote themselves elegant Latin poems). His most important work was the critical edition of the didactic poem De Rerum Natura of Lucretius to the Munro collated numerous (some previously unknown ) manuscripts. With this work he began at 1849. The critical edition was first published in 1860, then four years later in a revised and expanded form ( with a critical and objective commentary and an English prose translation ).

In the library of Trinity College, Munro discovered a manuscript which contained the best ever version of the text of the pseudo- Virgilian poem Aetna. 1867 Munro published an edition of the poem. His latest book (1878 ) was the explanation and criticism of the poems of Catullus.

HAJ Munro died during a stay in Rome and was buried in the Protestant cemetery.