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Irish classical scholar
Louis Claude Purser
Born (1854-09-28 ) September 28, 1854Died March 20, 1932(1932-03-20) (aged 77) Nationality Irish Occupation Translator
Alma mater Midleton College
Louis Claude Purser ,
FBA (28 September 1854 in
Abbeyside – 20 March 1932 in
Dublin ) was an
Irish
classical scholar.
[1]
Purser was educated at
Midleton College , County Cork,
[2] and
Portora Royal School ,
Enniskillen , where a fellow pupil and student of classics was
Oscar Wilde .
[3]
Purser was a tutor at
Trinity College, Dublin , from 1881 to 1898. In 1897, he was appointed as Professor of
Latin there.
[2] He collaborated with Dr.
Robert Yelverton Tyrrell on the translation of the letters of
Cicero .
[4]
Purser and
Arthur Palmer completed the editorial work for the final volumes of
James Henry ’s Aeneidea , a detailed commentary on
Virgil ’s
Aeneid , after the death of John Fletcher Davies, the editor originally appointed by Henry’s trustees.
[5]
He was the brother of the Irish artist
Sarah Purser . His niece
Olive Purser was the first woman scholar in TCD.
[6] He is buried at
Mount Jerome Cemetery .
[7]
References
^
Waterford County Museum (Retrieved 10 December 2010)
^
a
b The New International Encyclopædia , Volume 19 (Dodd, Mead, 1922), p. 387
^
David Robertson (Portora Archivist) "The Schooldays of Oscar Wilde" third page (Retrieved December, 10, 2010) [
permanent dead link ]
^ Michael., Malherbe, Abraham J. Fitzgerald, John T., 1948- Olbricht, Thomas H. White, L. (2003).
Early Christianity and classical culture : comparative studies in honor of Abraham J. Malherbe . Brill.
ISBN
1-4237-1426-1 .
OCLC
666962411 . {{
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^ Virgil (1889). Aeneidea, or Critical, Exegetical, and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis . Vol. 3. James Henry (trans.), John Fletcher Davies, Arthur Palmer, Louis Claude Purser (eds.). Dublin: by the trustees of the author. Notice following p. 623 and preceding continuation title page.
^
"Welcome, Welcome Little Women: TCD's First Female Graduates" . News & Alerts: The Library of Trinity College Dublin . 9 March 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2019 .
^
"Biography - Purser, Louis Claude (1854-1932) - Waterford County Museum" . www.waterfordmuseum.ie . Retrieved 12 May 2021 .
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