Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford)
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The Regius Professorship of Greek is a professorship at the University of Oxford.
The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1546. He established five Regius Professorships in the University, the others being the Regius chairs of Divinity, Medicine, Civil Law and Hebrew.[1]
[edit] List of holders
- George Etherege 1547-1550, 1554-1559
- John Harmar or Harmer, 1650-c.1660
- Humphrey Hody 1698-?
- Dr. Miller 18C
- Edward Thwaytes 1708-1711
- John Fanshawe -1741
- Shaw 1741-
- William Jackson (bishop)
- Thomas Gaisford 1811-1855
- Benjamin Jowett 1855-1893
- Ingram Bywater 1893–1908
- Gilbert Murray 1908-1936
- E. R. Dodds 1936-
- Hugh Lloyd-Jones 1960-1989
- Peter Parsons 1989-2003
- Christopher Pelling 2003-
[edit] Sources
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- Etherege, Harmer, Hody
- ^ New Regius Professor of Civil Law Appointed - University of Oxford news release dated 1 December 2005 online at ox.ac.uk (accessed 23 February 2008)
[edit] See also
- Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)
- Regius Professor of Greek (Trinity)
- List of Professorships at the University of Oxford
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