Ingram Bywater

Ingram Bywater (* June 27, 1840 in London, † December 18, 1914 ) was a British philologist Classic.

Bywater, the son of a pastor, successively attended University College School, King's College School and Queen's College, Oxford. After graduating, he became a Fellow in 1863 at Exeter College, Oxford. In 1883 he was appointed Reader in Greek, Regius Professor of Greek in 1893. His inaugural lecture was entitled Four Centuries of Greek Learning in England.

Bywaters research focus was the Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle and the Peripatetics. He has published numerous critical editions and fragment collections from the 80s in collaboration with the Prussian Academy of Sciences, which elected him a corresponding member.

Named after Bywater is the knit with a Fellowship in Exeter College Chair of the Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature in the field of Byzantine and Modern Greek at the University of Oxford. The professorship was established in 1915 and due to the means of the legacy of Charlotte Bywater, the Bywaters and widow of the Oxford philologist Hans Sotheby ( 1827-1875 ).

Writings (selection )

  • Heracliti Ephesii Reliquiae. Oxford 1877.
  • Prisciani Lydi quae extant. Berlin 1886.
  • The fragments of the work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on nature. Baltimore 1889.
  • Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea. Oxford 1890.
  • Contributions to the Textual Criticism of the Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford 1892.
  • Aristotelis De arte poetica liber. Oxford 1898.
  • Aristotle on the Art of Poetry. Oxford 1920.
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