Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Sir Hugh Lloyd -Jones FBA ( born September 21, 1922 in Saint Peter Port, † October 5, 2009 in Wellesley, Massachusetts ) was a British classical scholar.

Lloyd -Jones attended the Lycée Français and the Westminster School in London and then studied at Christ Church College in Oxford. During World War II he was stationed as a 2nd Lieutenant of the Intelligence Corps in India, 1944, he was promoted to captain. After the war he was discharged from military service in 1946. After a two-year study of classical philology at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, he was promoted to Fellow in 1948. In 1950 he was Assistant Lecturer, 1952 full-time lecturer at the University. In 1954 he moved to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was EP Warren Praelector classical philology. At Oxford he became acquainted with Paul Maas. Since 1960 he was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University. He retired and raised to the peerage in 1989.

Lloyd -Jones was among other things, co-editor of the monograph series Hypomnemata. He has received several honorary doctorates, including the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Göttingen (29 May 2002).

In his first marriage Hugh Lloyd -Jones was married since 1953 with Frances Hedley, with whom he has two sons and a daughter. After the divorce he married in 1982, the American Classicist Mary Lefkowitz.

Writings

  • Supplementum Hellenisticum. Ediderunt Hugh Lloyd -Jones et Peter J. Parsons. Indices confecit Heinz -Günther Nesselrath. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1983 ( texts and commentaries, 11), ISBN 3-11-008171-7. Google Books: Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici. By Hugh Lloyd -Jones. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 2005 ( texts and commentaries, 26), ISBN 3-11-018537-7. Google Books:
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