Jump to content

Robert Yelverton Tyrrell

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, FBA (January 21, 1844 – September 19, 1914) was an Irish classical scholar who was Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin.

Biography

[edit]

He was educated at Trinity College where he subsequently became a fellow in 1868 and professor of Latin in 1871. From 1869 he became the first editor of the literary magazine Kottabos. He also founded the "more solemn academic journal" Hermathena in 1873.[1]

From 1880 to 1898, he was Regius professor of Greek, and from 1900 to 1904 professor of ancient history. He was a Commissioner of Education for Ireland and one of the original fellows of the British Academy. He was a first cousin to the disgraced modernist writer and excommunicated Catholic priest George Tyrrell SJ.[2]

Works

[edit]

Amongst his published works were:

Notes

[edit]
  1. ^ Jeffares, A. Norman (1982). Anglo-Irish Literature. MacMillan International Higher Education. p. 192. ISBN 9781349168552. (for Jeffares 1982 see also: digital copy at Internet Archive). Jeffares incorrectly gives 1874 as the first year of Hermathena.
  2. ^ Stanford, W.B. (1978). "Robert Yelverton Tyrrell". Hermathena (125 (Winter 1978)): 7–21.
  3. ^ Jebb, R. C. (1871). "Tyrrell's Bacchae". The Dark Blue: 651–656.
  4. ^ Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, Essays on Greek Literature, MacMillan and Company, London (1909)
[edit]

References

[edit]