| LC control no. | nr 93029942 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mair, A. W. (Alexander William), 1875-1928 |
| Variant(s) | Mair, Alexander William, 1875-1928 |
| See also | Employer: University of Edinburgh Employer: University of Aberdeen Student at: University of Aberdeen Student at: University of Cambridge |
| Associated country | Great Britain Scotland |
| Located | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Birth date | 1875-06-09 |
| Death date | 1928-11-13 |
| Place of birth | Deerhill (Moray, Scotland) |
| Place of death | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Greek philology Translating and interpreting Poetry |
| Affiliation | University of Edinburgh University of Aberdeen University of Cambridge Gonville and Caius College |
| Profession or occupation | Philologists Classicists College teachers Translators Poets |
| Found in | Oppian, Colluthus, Tryphiodorus, 1928: t.p. (A.W. Mair, D. Litt., professor of Greek, Edinburgh University; English translation) preface, p. vii-ix (third installment of translations from Greek poets) NUC pre-56 (Mair, Alexander William, 1875-1928) Hesiod. The poems and fragments, 1908: t.p. (done into English prose, with introduction and appendices, by A.W. Mair, M.A. (Aberd. et Cantab.), professor of Greek in Edinburgh University, sometime fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) Cambridge alumni database, 17 May 2016 (Mair, Alexander William; born in Deerhill, Grange, Banffshire (also appears as Deerhill Grange, Banffshire), June 9, 1875; Aberdeen University M.A., 1893; admitted at Caius Oct. 2, 1893; Cambridge B.A. 1898; M.A. 1901; Fellow, 1899-1905; Litt.D., Aberdeen, 1911; Lecturer and assistant Professor of Greek at Aberdeen University, 1898-9; Lecturer at Edinburgh University, 1899-1903; Professor of Greek at Edinburgh, 1903-28; Author: Hesiod, Callimachus, Lycophron; contributed to Hastings's Encyclopaedia of Ethics; burnt to death at his house in Edinburgh, Nov. 13, 1928) The Times (London, England), November 14, 1928, viewed online 17 May 2016: p. 21, Obituary: Professor Mair (A.W. Mair; Alexander William Mair; had been Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh for 25 years; product of the Cambridge School; perished in a fire in his house in Edinburgh yesterday, at the age of 53; born at Deerhill, in Banffshire; in 1889, at the age of 14, became an undergraduate at the University of Aberdeen; took his M.A. at Aberdeen in April 1893; went up to Cambridge 1893, Cambridge degree; Litt. D. Aberdeen, 1911; professor of Greek; English scholar, studied Hebrew; composed Greek epigrams; editions with translations of Hesiod, Callimachus, Lycophron; contributed to Hastings's Encyclopaedia of Ethics; many of his poems have appeared in various magazines) |
| Not found in | Oxford dictionary of national biography, 16 May 2016 |
| Associated language | eng grc |
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