Lewis Campbell (classicist)

Lewis Campbell (/ˈkæmbəl/; 1830–1908) was a Scottish classical scholar.[1]

Lewis Campbell
photo by George Charles Beresford of Lewis Campbell in 1904
1904 photo of Lewis Campbell
by George Charles Beresford
Born(1830-09-03)3 September 1830
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Died25 October 1908(1908-10-25) (aged 78)
Brissago (Switzerland)
Occupationclassical scholar

Biography

Campbell was born in Edinburgh. His father, Robert Campbell, RN, was a first cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet. His mother was the author Eliza Constantia Campbell.[2] His father died when he was two years of age.[3] In 1844 his mother married Colonel Morrieson.[4]

Campbell was educated at Edinburgh Academy, the University of Glasgow, Trinity College, Oxford and Balliol College, Oxford. He was fellow and tutor of Queen's College, Oxford (1855–1858), vicar of Milford, Hampshire (1858–1863), and professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews (1863–1894). An advocate for the higher education for women, he was closely involved in the foundation of St Leonards School for Girls and was the chairman of the school council from 1886 to 1903.[5][6][7] In 1894, he was elected an honorary fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. From 1894 to 1896 at St Andrews, he gave the Gifford Lectures, which were published in 1898.[8]

Although an Anglican vicar, in October 1893 Campbell was reportedly preaching at the University of St Andrews' College Church, a Church of Scotland foundation.[9][10]

Works

As a scholar he is best known by his work on Sophocles and Plato. His published works include:

  • Sophocles Greek text with English notes in two volumes (2nd ed., 1879)
  • The Sophistes and Politicus of Plato Greek text with English notes (1867)
  • Sophocles, The Seven Plays in English Verse (1883)
  • The Theaetetus of Plato Greek text with English notes (2nd ed., 1883)
  • Republic, the Greek text, in three volumes (with Benjamin Jowett, 1894)
  • Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett in two volumes (with Evelyn Abbott, 1897)
  • Letters of B. Jowett (1899)
  • Life of James Clerk Maxwell, with William Garnett, 1st ed., 1882,[11] (new ed. revised and abridged, 1884)
  • A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers (1891)
  • Religion in Greek Literature. A Sketch in Outline. London etc.: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. OCLC 1170247319 (all editions). (Gifford Lectures for 1894–1896)[12]
  • On the Nationalisation of the Old English Universities (1901)
  • Verse translations of the plays of Aeschylus (1890)
  • Sophocles (1896)
  • Plato's Republic Oxford lectures (1902)
  • Tragic Drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare (1904)
  • Paralipomena Sophoclea (1907).

Sir W.D. Ross had recognized the importance of stylometric methods in Plato chronology which Campbell had introduced in his editions of the Sophistes and Politicus of 1869. Recent scholars such as Charles H. Kahn and Diskin Clay, have each advanced the ordering and grouping of Plato's dialogues according to the same method.

Notes
  1. "Campbell, Rev. Lewis". Who's Who: 289–290. 1908.
  2. Lewis Campbell (1914). Memorials in Verse and Prose of Lewis Campbell. private circulation. p. 454.
  3. Kahan, David. "Lewis Campbell". Gifford Lectures. Archived from the original on 23 May 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  4. Craik 2004.
  5. St Leonard's School 1877–1977. Blackie & Son. 1977. p. 81. Retrieved 19 March 2022. Chairman of Council ...Lewis Campbell 1886–1903
  6. Craik, E. "Professor Lewis Campbell". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 13 February 2022. Emeritus Professor of Greek, University of St Andrews...advocated higher education for women. As to the latter, he was closely involved in the foundation of St Leonard's School for women and was the chairman of the school council for many years.
  7. Campbell, Lewis (1891). "The Journal Of Education": 593-4. Retrieved 19 March 2022. [Campbell still chairman of council in 1891 having been elected in 1886] {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. Campbell 1898.
  9. "The Rev. Lewis Campbell". St. Andrews Citizen Fife, Scotland. 21 October 1893. Rev. Lewis Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Greek, preached in the College Church last Sunday morning. The* subject of his discourse was the...
  10. Clarke, M. (1959). Classical Education in Britain, 1500–1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 158. Retrieved 11 April 2021. ...of Scotsman who, like Lewis Campbell, had taken Anglican Orders
  11. Smith, Henry J. S. (13 January 1883). "Review of Life of James Clerk Maxwell by L. Campbell and W. Garnett". The Academy. 23 (558): 19–20.
  12. "Religion in Greek Literature". Gifford Lectures. Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.

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