Myles Dillon

Myles Dillon ( born May 11, 1900 in Dublin, † June 18, 1972 ) was an Irish Keltologe.

Life

Myles Dillon was one of six children of Irish politician John Dillon ( 1851-1927 ). The politician James Dillon was his brother. He studied at University College Dublin at Osborn Bergin, in France at Joseph Vendryes and 1922-1925 in Germany (Bonn, Berlin, Heidelberg), among others, with Rudolf Thurneysen (Bonn), Julius Pokorny (Berlin), Heinrich Zimmer (Heidelberg ), Ferdinand Johann Sommer ( Bonn). In particular, he studied Old Irish, Sanskrit and Indoeurpäische philology. From 1928 he taught Sanskrit and comparative philology at Trinity College ( Dublin) and 1930 to 1937 at University College, Dublin, before he went to the USA, where he taught at the University of Wisconsin -Madison and 1946/47, at the University of Chicago. He also taught in Edinburgh. Then he returned to Dublin, where he taught at the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and was its director from 1960 to 1968.

In addition to Celtic studies and popular scientific works about the Celts, he went to also common Indo-European cultural roots of Indians and Celts from the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Simla.

The Hellenist and philosopher John M. Dillon is his son.

He was editor of the journal Celtica.

Writings

  • Nora Kershaw Chadwick: The Celts: from prehistory to the Norman invasion, Kindler's cultural history, 1967 ( Original: The Celtic Realms, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1967)
  • The Cycles of the Kings, Oxford University Press, 1946, reprint 1994 ( Four Courts Press)
  • Early Irish Literature, University of Chicago Press, 1948, reprint 1994 ( Four Courts Press)
  • Publisher Early Irish Society, Dublin 1963
  • Irish sagas, Dublin, Published for Radio Éireann by the Stationery Office, 1959
  • Lebor na Cert. The Book of Rights, Dublin, Irish Texts Society, 1962 ( as a translator and commentator )
  • Celts and Aryans: survivals of Indoeuropean Speech and Society, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla 1975
  • With Donncha Ó Cróinín Teach yourself Irish, English Universities Press, London 1961
  • Nominal predicates in Irish, Halle 1928
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