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JOWETT, Benjamin

  • Jowett, Benjamin
  • Date of Birth: April 15, 1817
  • Born City: Camberwekl, London
  • Born State/Country: England
  • Parents: Benjamin, a furrier and later a printer, & Isabella Langhorne J.
  • Date of Death: October 1, 1893
  • Death City: Headley Park, Hampshire
  • Death State/Country: England
  • Education:

    St. Paul’s School, 1829-35; fell., Balliol College, Oxford (first class), 1838; B.A. (first class honours), 1839. 
  • Professional Experience:

    Tutor, Balliol College, 1842; ordained a deacon, Church of England, 1842; ordained priest, 1845; Regius Prof. Greek, Oxford, 1855-93; master of Balliol, 1870-93; Vice-Chancellor, 1882-93.
  • Publications:

    The Epistles of St Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians, and Romans, with Critical and Explanatory Notes. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1855; 2nd ed. 1859; 3rd ed., 1894); “On the Interpretation of Scripture,” Essays and Reviews (1860) 340-433; The Dialogues of Plato, Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions. 4 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1871; 2nd ed., 5 vols. 1875; 3rd ed., 1892; 4th ed., 1953); The Republic of Plato Translated into English with Analyses and Introduction 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1876; 2nd ed., 1881; 3rd ed., 1888; Thucydides Translated into English with Analyses and Introduction, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881; 2nd ed. 1900); The Politics of Aristotle, Translated into English with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, Essays, Notes, and Indices, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885); Plato's Republic (Greek text), ed. with Lewis Campbell, 3 vols. (Vol. 1: Text; Vol. 2: Essays; Vol. 3: Notes.) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894); College Sermons, ed. W. H. Fremantle (London: Murray, 1895); Sermons: Biographical and Miscellaneous, ed. W. H. Fremantle (London: Murray, 1899); Sermons on Faith and Doctrine, ed. W. H. Fremantle (London: J. Murray, 1901); Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett, ed. Lewis Campbell (London: H. Frowde, 1906);  The Interpretation of Scripture and Other Essays (London: Routledge; New York, Dutton, 1906);  Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Reading, ed. Victor Shea & William Whitla (Charlottesville & London: University Press of Virginia, 2000) 477-536.

    Letters:

    Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College, edited by Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell (London: John Murray, 1899); Dear Miss Nightingale: A Selection of Benjamin Jowett’s Letters to Florence Nightingale, 1860-1893, ed. Vincent Quinn & John Prest (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1987).
  • Sources:

    L. Campbell, “The Late Professor Jowett, Born 1817; Died 1893,” CR 7 (1893) 473-6; Life and Letters, ed. Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell, 2 vols. (London: John Murray, 1897). Sandys,  3:418-20; Geoffrey Faber, Jowett, A Portrait with Background (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1958); Robert Scott and Benjamin Jowett, ed. John M. Prest (Oxford: Balliol College, 1966); Graham Greene, The Great Jowett (London: The Bodley Head, 1981); [Robert Causland], T[homas] H[enry] O[lbricht], R[obert] B. T[odd], DBC 528-32; U.C.A. Stephan, Brill, 316.
  • Author: Ward Briggs