Thomas Blackwell ( born Thomas Blackwell , August 4, 1701 , Aberdeen - March 6, 1757, Edinburgh ) is a Scottish classic philologist .
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Biography
The son of a Presbyterian pastor, Blackwell received his higher education at the university of his native city, where his father occupied the department of theology, and at the age of 22, he himself occupied the department of Greek. In 1735 , he anonymously published in London, “ Inquiry into the life and writings of Homer ”. The German translation of Foss appeared in 1766 .
"The joy of the idea of natural and simple morals cannot be resisted, it truly enchants, " so, in a pre-romantic manner, Blackwell wrote. All the great original writers, it is further said, were perfect only if they spoke their own language and about the things that they most often encountered. At the same time, Blackwell’s book contains a lot of uncritical and overly long speculations about the Egyptian and Phoenician sources of Homer's wisdom and fantasy.
In 1748, Letters Concerning Mythology were also published anonymously.
Notes
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/nomenclatorphilo00ecks?ui=embed#page/47/mode/2up
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
Literature
- Blackwell, Thomas // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.