John Percival Postgate
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John Percival Postgate (October 24, 1853 - July 15, 1926) was an English classicist, professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920.
Born in Birmingham, the son of John Postgate, he was educated at King Edward's School where he became head boy. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge where he read classics, being elected a Fellow in 1878.
He established himself as a creative editor of Latin poetry with published editions of Propertius, Lucan and Tibullus. His major work was the Corpus poetarum Latinorum. While at Cambridge, he edited the Classical Review and the Classical Quarterly while holding the chair of comparative philology at University College, London.
In 1909, reconciled that the Cambridge chair would go to A.E. Housman, Postgate became professor of Latin at Liverpool.
He retired to Cambridge in 1920. On July 14, 1926 he was injured in a cycling accident and died of his injuries the following day.
He was the father of Raymond and Margaret, and grandfather of Oliver Postgate.
Bibliography
- Todd, R. B. (ed.) (2004) Dictionary of British Classicists ISBN 1855069970