John Percival Postgate
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John Percival Postgate, FBA (24 October 1853 – 15 July 1926) was an English classicist and professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920. He was a member of the Postgate family. Born in Birmingham, the son of John Postgate, he was educated at King Edward's School where he became head boy. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read classics, being elected a Fellow in 1878. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1886.
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John Percival Postgate (Birmingham, 24 ottobre 1853 – Cambridge, 15 luglio 1926) è stato un latinista e grecista britannico. Frequentò la King Edward's School di Birmingham, poi tramite una borsa di studio fu ammesso al Trinity College dell'Università di Cambridge. A Cambridgepubblicò diversi libri di poesia latina e monografie delle opere di Properzio, Lucano, Tibullo e Fedro. La sua opera maggiore è l'antologia di poeti latini Corpus Poetarum Latinorum, considerata un capolavoro editoriale.
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John Percival Postgate, FBA (24 October 1853 – 15 July 1926) was an English classicist and professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920. He was a member of the Postgate family. Born in Birmingham, the son of John Postgate, he was educated at King Edward's School where he became head boy. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read classics, being elected a Fellow in 1878. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1886. He established himself as a creative editor of Latin poetry with published editions of Propertius, Lucan, Tibullus and Phaedrus. His major work was the two-volume Corpus Poetarum Latinorum, a triumph of editorial organisation. An influential work was his often reprinted "The New Latin Primer", 1888, much used in British schools over subsequent decades. While at Cambridge, he edited the Classical Review and the Classical Quarterly while holding the chair of comparative philology at University College, London. In 1909, reconciled that the Cambridge Chair would go to A. E. Housman, as it did in 1911, Postgate opted to become Professor of Latin at Liverpool. He retired to Cambridge in 1920. On 14 July 1926 he was injured in a cycling accident and died of his injuries the following day.
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John Percival Postgate (Birmingham, 24 ottobre 1853 – Cambridge, 15 luglio 1926) è stato un latinista e grecista britannico. Frequentò la King Edward's School di Birmingham, poi tramite una borsa di studio fu ammesso al Trinity College dell'Università di Cambridge. A Cambridgepubblicò diversi libri di poesia latina e monografie delle opere di Properzio, Lucano, Tibullo e Fedro. La sua opera maggiore è l'antologia di poeti latini Corpus Poetarum Latinorum, considerata un capolavoro editoriale. Fondò le riviste Classical Review e The Classical Quarterly e fu docente di filologia comparata al University College di Londra. Nel 1909 diventò professore di latino a Liverpool. Si ritirò dall'insegnamento nel 1920 e andò a vivere a Cambridge. Morì in seguito alle ferite riportate in un incidente in bicicletta. Per l'edizione del 1911 dell'Encyclopædia Britannica scrisse gli articoli: Juvenal, Latin Literature, Lucan, Textual Criticism, Albius Tibullus.
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