Regius Professor of Humanity
The Regius Chair of Humanity is a Regius Chair at the University of Aberdeen. The position was originally a professorship in Latin, like equivalent positions at Glasgow and Edinburgh, and existed in parallel with the Regius Chair of Greek. These two professorial chairs had their origins in the pre-existing Chairs of Greek and Humanity that existed at King's College and Marischal College, which were unified into the University of Aberdeen in 1860.
In 1979, the Regius Chair of Humanity was renamed the Regius Chair of Classics and the Regius Chair of Greek was abolished and merged into this position, formalising what may already have been an existing situation, as no Regius Professor of Greek had recently held office.[1][2] However, the teaching of Classics at the university was then abolished in 1989.[3]
In 2006, the name of the Regius Chair of Classics was restored to Regius Chair of Humanity.[4] Since then, the position has been held by scholars within the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History, whose specialist interests have included Greek and Latin texts.
List of Professors at King's College, Aberdeen
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Professors of Greek (before 1860)
[edit | edit source]- 1754–1790: James Leslie
- 1790–1796: Gilbert Gerard
- 1797–1854: Hugh Macpherson
- 1854–1855: P. Campbell
- 1855–1860: William Duguid Geddes
Professors of Humanity (before 1860)
[edit | edit source]- 1669–1695: Patrick Gordon
- 1695–1739: A. Gordon
- 1739–1765: Thomas Gordon
- 1765–1817: William Ogilvie
- 1817–1847: Patrick Forbes
- 1847–1860: George Ferguson
List of Professors at Marischal College, Aberdeen
[edit | edit source]Professors of Greek (before 1860)
[edit | edit source]- 1723: Thomas Haddow
- 1723–1757: Thomas Blackwell
- 1758–1782: William Kennedy
- 1782–1827: John Stuart
- 1827–1860: Robert James Brown
Professors of Humanity (before 1860)
[edit | edit source]- 1839–1851: John Stuart Blackie
- 1852–1860: Robert MacLure
List of Professors at the unified University of Aberdeen
[edit | edit source]Regius Professors of Greek (1860–1979)
[edit | edit source]- 1860–1885: William Duguid Geddes (formerly Professor of Greek at King's College)
- 1886–1931: John Harrower
- 1931–1964?: Archibald Cameron (discussed on German Wikipedia)
- 1964?–1979: Chair vacant
Regius Professors of Humanity (1860–1979)
[edit | edit source]- 1860–1868: Robert MacLure (formerly Professor of Humanity at Marischal College)
- 1868–1881: John Black
- 1881–1886: James Donaldson
- 1886–1911: William Mitchell Ramsay
- 1911–1937: Alexander Souter[5]
- 1938–1952: Peter Noble
- 1952–1979: William Smith Watt[6]
Regius Professors of Classics (1979–2006)
[edit | edit source]- 1980–1983: John M. Rist
- 1983–2006: Chair vacant
Regius Professors of Humanity (since 2006)
[edit | edit source]- 2007–2017: Jane Stevenson
- 2020–present: John Behr[7][8]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Professor of Humanity (Glasgow)
- MacDowell Professor of Greek
- Professor of Classics (Edinburgh)
- List of professorships at the University of Aberdeen
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