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Wallace Lindsay (1858 – 21 February 1937) was a Scottish
Scotland

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 classicist who was Professor of Humanity at St Andrews University.

say was born in Pittenweem
Pittenweem

Pittenweem is a small and secluded fishing village tucked in the corner of Fife on the east coast of Scotland. The name derives from Pictish and Scottish Gaelic....
, Fife, where his father was a Free Church minister. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy
Edinburgh Academy

The Edinburgh Academy is an independent school. It is self-governed and financed, though it remains subject to inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education most recently in 2006....
, Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College , founded in 1263, is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England.Balliol is Oxford's most popular college, measured in terms of the number of applications for entry from prospective students....
. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
Jesus College, Oxford

Jesus College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had a financial endowment of ?119m....
 from 1880 to 1899, when he was appointed as Professor of Humanity (as the professorship in Latin was called) at St Andrews University.






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Wallace Lindsay (1858 – 21 February 1937) was a Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 classicist who was Professor of Humanity at St Andrews University.

Biography

Lindsay was born in Pittenweem
Pittenweem

Pittenweem is a small and secluded fishing village tucked in the corner of Fife on the east coast of Scotland. The name derives from Pictish and Scottish Gaelic....
, Fife, where his father was a Free Church minister. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy
Edinburgh Academy

The Edinburgh Academy is an independent school. It is self-governed and financed, though it remains subject to inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education most recently in 2006....
, Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford
Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College , founded in 1263, is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England.Balliol is Oxford's most popular college, measured in terms of the number of applications for entry from prospective students....
. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
Jesus College, Oxford

Jesus College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had a financial endowment of ?119m....
 from 1880 to 1899, when he was appointed as Professor of Humanity (as the professorship in Latin was called) at St Andrews University. Lindsay wrote numerous studies, covering a range of topics in Latin from the works of Plautus
Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus , commonly known as Plautus, was a Ancient Rome playwright. His comedy are among the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature....
 and Martial
Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis , was a Latin language poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Ancient Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the Roman emperor Domitian, Nerva and Trajan....
 to the development of medieval Latin. Some of his books were translated into French and German.