Maurice Bowra

Cecil Maurice Bowra ( born April 8, 1898 in Jiujiang, China, † July 4, 1971 in Oxford ) was a classical philologist.

Life

Cecil Maurice Bowra was born the son of a standing in Chinese services British customs officials in Jiujiang Yangtze River on China. He spent his youth in 1903 in his native England. In 1917, he made ​​war service on the French front, so that he could begin the study of classical philology at Oxford until after the conclusion of peace. Here he was first Fellow and Tutor.

Since 1938 Bowra Warden of Wadham College was. In the same year he was admitted to the British Academy, whose president he was from 1958 to 1962. From 1946-1951 he was there poetics professor and from 1951-54 at the same time Vice- Chancellor of Oxford University.

Scientific activity

In addition to his administrative duties to Bowra dealt with the ancient Greek literature. He wrote, among other writings work on the Iliad (1930 ), on Early Greek Poetry (1936 ), about Sophocles (1944 ), on Pindar (1964 ) and Periclean Athens ( 1971).

Soden was also active in comparative literature, which he also wrote several works, including 1952 ' Heroic Poetry ', a comparative study of the heroic poetry of all times and peoples.

Honors

In addition to the early inclusion in the British Academy in 1938, Bowra was taken on June 4, 1969 as a foreign member of the Prussian Order pour le Merite for Arts and Science. In addition, he was raised in 1951 in the non-hereditary knighthood.