Jebb, Richard Claverhouse

Richard Claverhouse Jebb

Richard Claverhouse Jebb
George Reid [1] . Portrait of Sir Richard Jebb
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The son of a lawyer; The life and career of the three previous generations in the Jebba clan was connected with Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College in Cambridge (1862), since 1863 he began to teach there. In 1869-1875 held the honorary position of public speaker at the University of Cambridge . In the years 1875-1889. Professor of ancient Greek language and literature at the University of Glasgow , from 1889 until the end of his life he held the same position at Cambridge University. From 1891 until the end of his life, he was a member of the House of Commons of the British Parliament from Cambridge University. In 1900 he was elevated to knighthood, in 1902, when the British Academy was established, he was elected one of its members. Honorary Doctor of many British and international universities.

The most important works of Jebb are the monographs " Attic orators from Antiphon to Isaeus , 1876) and" The Development and Influence of Greek Poetry "( English Growth and Influence of Greek Poetry , 1893), a commentary on the translation of" Characters " Theophrastus (1870), a translation of the sophisticated poetic prose of the seven tragedies of Sophocles , commented on the translation of the writings of Bacchilides (1905); posthumously published a translation of Rhetoric by Aristotle . Jebb also owns a biography of Richard Bentley (1882).

The biography of Jebb and the volume of his letters were published in 1907 by his widow Caroline, nee Reynolds (1840-1930). Jebb's nephews are journalist and political scientist Richard Jebb and community activists Eglantina Jebb and Dorothy Buxton (co-authors of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child ).