Burnet, John ♂

Education

Professor of Greek, St Andrews University 20.10.1892 - 26.5.1928 (died).

Birth/childhood

Born 9.12.1863 son of John Burnet, advocate, Edinburgh and Jessie Kay. [Lawyer]

Career

Educated at Edinburgh, Paris and Oxford Universities [Edinburgh University, Paris University, Oxford University].

Assistant to Lewis Campbell at St Andrews 1887 - 1888. Assistant master, Harrow, 1888. Fellow of Merton College 1889. Interim professor of humanity, Edinburgh 1890. Substituted for Lewis Campbell from January 1898. [Teacher]

Professor of Greek, St Andrews University 20.10.1892 - 26.5.1928 (died). [University professor]

John Burnet Hall at St Andrews University named after him.

Publications

Early Greek Philosophy (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892)

Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato (London: Macmillan, 1914)

Higher Education and the War (London: Macmillan, 1917)

etc.

Death

[Died 26.5.1928.]

Sources

• Fife News Almanac 1929
• Who was Who
• Proc. British Acad. xiv 1928 445 - 470
• Alumnus Chronicle 3 p10
• Coll. Echoes 1902/03 85, 223
• John Burnet (classicist) in Wikipedia.