John Stuart Blackie

BLACKIE, John Stuart. b. Glasgow, 28 July 1809; d. Edinburgh, 2 March 1895. He was the son of a banker who moved to Aberdeen during John Stuart’s first year. He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen (1821-24) and subsequently for a year at the University of Edinburgh (1825-26). He had strong interests in theology, and studied in Germany at Göttingen and Berlin under Friedrich Schleiermacher. Returning to Scotland, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1834; but in 1839, when the post of Professor of Humanity (Latin) was first established at Marischal College, Aberdeen, he was appointed, amid some controversy. He moved to Edinburgh as Professor of Greek in 1850 (he had...