Roger Mynors

Sir Roger AB Mynors FBA, complete: Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors ( born July 28, 1903 in Wiltshire, † 17 October 1989 in Herefordshire ) was a British philologist Classic.

Life

Mynors attended Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was hired in 1926 as a Fellow. In 1944, he joined as Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge, in 1953 as Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford. There he associated with Rudolf Pfeiffer, Otto Eduard Fraenkel Skutsch and ( his predecessor in the chair ).

As a philologist Classic is Mynors dealt with the Latin literature from antiquity to modern times. He edited the Oxford editions of the authors Cassiodorus (1937 ), Catullus (1958), Pliny (1963 ) and Virgil (1969 ), also the Duodecim Panegyrici Latini (1964). The Latin literature of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, he promoted through catalogs and text output. Together with Douglas FS Thomson, he published a nine -volume translation of the letters of Erasmus ( Toronto 1974-1989 ).

For his services Mynor has received numerous honors. Member of the British Academy, he was since 1958. 1963 he was knighted. The Medieval Academy of America and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences elected him in 1971 and in 1977 a corresponding member. The Universities of Reading ( 1964) and Leiden ( 1972) awarded him an honorary doctorate.