John Stuart Blackie

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John Stuart Blackie was born in Glasgow in 1809 but moved the Aberdeen in the same year when his father secured employment with the Commercial Bank. He was educated in Aberdeen and Edinburgh before continuing his studies in various locations throughout Europe, including Berlin and Rome. He returned to Britain in 1831 and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1834. He was appointed as the first incumbent of the chair of Humanity at Aberdeen University and gave popular lectures on a variety of subjects. He went on to succeed to the Greek chair at Edinburgh University. His classical publications included translations of Greek literature as well as the study of the Greek language, his translation of the 'Iliad' appearing in 1866. He also published works on Scottish, philosophical, religious and political topics. He was a keen advocate of university reform and was instrumental in setting two further chairs in Fine Art and Celtic. His flamboyant, eccentric persona made him easily recognisable by the students and citizens of Edinburgh. Blackie had a great fondness for the Highlands and Islands and he and his wife spent their summers on the west coast at Oban, eventually building their own house there. He was sympathetic to the plight of the Highland crofters and was very enthusiastic about the Gaelic language. Publications from this period include 'The Gaelic Language' (1864), 'Lays of the Highlands and Islands' (1871), 'The Language and Literature of the Highlands' (1876), and 'Altavona: Fact and Fiction From My Life in the Highlands' (1882). He died at his Edinburgh home on 2 March 1895, and after the funeral service at St Giles, was buried in the Dean cemetery.

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Homer And The Iliad V3
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The Wise Men Of Greece In A Series Of Dramatic Dialogues
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Horae Hellenicae
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On Beauty
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Scottish Song
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Self-Culture, Intellectual, Physical And Moral
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The day-book of John Stuart Blackie
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Songs Of Religion And Life
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The language and literature of the Scottish Highlands
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Life of Robert Burns
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Four phases of morals
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The Wisdom Of Goethe
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Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece
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A song of heroes
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Homer and the Iliad
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Four phases of morals
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Notes of a life
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The letters of John Stuart Blackie to his wife
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Fragments of the early history of Springfield and Green County
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The day-book of John Stuart Blackie
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Selected poems
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Selected poems
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The selected poems of John Stuart Blackie
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On self-culture, intellectual, physical, and moral
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