Number #7 in "A Cambridge Necropolis" by Dr. Mark Goldie from March 2000 for Friends of The Parish of The Ascension Burial Ground, total of 49.
Born Karl Oskar Levy, classicist. Acting Classical Tutor, Magdalen College, Oxford 1941- 45; Senior Classics Master, Magdalen College School, Oxford 1943-48; Senior Lecturer in Humanity, St Andrews University 1948-51; Professor of Latin, Liverpool University 1951-54; Kennedy Professor of Latin, Cambridge University 1954-74; Fellow, Gonville and Caius College 1955-94; FBA 1964; Chairman, Classics Committee, Schools Council 1965-69.
One of the great generation of the Jewish intellectual diaspora from Nazi Germany. He was born at Berlin, the son of a Jewish lawyer named Levy. He turned to classical studies at the University of Berlin. In 1933 he joined the editorial staff ofthe monumental Latin dictionery, the "Thesaurus Lingua Latinae at Munich. This elephantine project of grandiose ambition had begun in the nineteenth century; it is not yet completed in the twenty-first century. Brink served on the international commission that directed the project after the War. Every latin word was to be minutely examined and explained; in the 1970's members of the team were expected to spend a month on one word. Brink's contributions included the word 'homo'. In 1938 he fled Hitler's regime and settled in England. As a German he was briefly interned by the British government at the outbreak of the war. He taught at Oxford. He went to St. Andrew's University as a lecturer in 1948, then in 1951 to a chair at Liverpool, and then in 1954, the Kennedy chair of Latin at Cambridge. Brink's studies embraced Greek philosphy, Latin grammar and philogy, and the history of classical scholarship. His best-known achievement was three volumes of exegesis of the poet Horace. Horace had never been exposed to such intensive line-by-line scrutiny, mingling grammar, rhetoric, aesthetics, and codicology. he took a fellowship at Caius, and was leading candidate for the Mastership in 1958. He did not at first support the admission of women to the college. He took a principal role, as chairman of the Trustees, in the founding of Robinson College, which opened in 1979 and which involved much diplomatic nursing of the donor David Robinson. He was a distant and unsmiling figure to those who did not know him. He seemed fixed at a certain age; he conducted lecture tours of the Continent and America in his eighties. He was an accomplished pianist, and one imagined a career as a conductor. He met his wife at a weeding party, an exercise by Land Army volunteers during the War. There is a portrait at Robinson College.
He died on 2 March 1994 in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, some days after suffering a heart attack in his college rooms. He was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on March 10, 1994; his ashes were interred in St Giles's cemetery on 11 April 1994.
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Born Karl Oskar Levy, classicist. Acting Classical Tutor, Magdalen College, Oxford 1941- 45; Senior Classics Master, Magdalen College School, Oxford 1943-48; Senior Lecturer in Humanity, St Andrews University 1948-51; Professor of Latin, Liverpool University 1951-54; Kennedy Professor of Latin, Cambridge University 1954-74; Fellow, Gonville and Caius College 1955-94; FBA 1964; Chairman, Classics Committee, Schools Council 1965-69.
One of the great generation of the Jewish intellectual diaspora from Nazi Germany. He was born at Berlin, the son of a Jewish lawyer named Levy. He turned to classical studies at the University of Berlin. In 1933 he joined the editorial staff ofthe monumental Latin dictionery, the "Thesaurus Lingua Latinae at Munich. This elephantine project of grandiose ambition had begun in the nineteenth century; it is not yet completed in the twenty-first century. Brink served on the international commission that directed the project after the War. Every latin word was to be minutely examined and explained; in the 1970's members of the team were expected to spend a month on one word. Brink's contributions included the word 'homo'. In 1938 he fled Hitler's regime and settled in England. As a German he was briefly interned by the British government at the outbreak of the war. He taught at Oxford. He went to St. Andrew's University as a lecturer in 1948, then in 1951 to a chair at Liverpool, and then in 1954, the Kennedy chair of Latin at Cambridge. Brink's studies embraced Greek philosphy, Latin grammar and philogy, and the history of classical scholarship. His best-known achievement was three volumes of exegesis of the poet Horace. Horace had never been exposed to such intensive line-by-line scrutiny, mingling grammar, rhetoric, aesthetics, and codicology. he took a fellowship at Caius, and was leading candidate for the Mastership in 1958. He did not at first support the admission of women to the college. He took a principal role, as chairman of the Trustees, in the founding of Robinson College, which opened in 1979 and which involved much diplomatic nursing of the donor David Robinson. He was a distant and unsmiling figure to those who did not know him. He seemed fixed at a certain age; he conducted lecture tours of the Continent and America in his eighties. He was an accomplished pianist, and one imagined a career as a conductor. He met his wife at a weeding party, an exercise by Land Army volunteers during the War. There is a portrait at Robinson College.
He died on 2 March 1994 in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, some days after suffering a heart attack in his college rooms. He was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on March 10, 1994; his ashes were interred in St Giles's cemetery on 11 April 1994.
See ODNB.
Number #7 in "A Cambridge Necropolis" by Dr. Mark Goldie from March 2000 for Friends of The Parish of The Ascension Burial Ground, total of 49.
Born Karl Oskar Levy, classicist. Acting Classical Tutor, Magdalen College, Oxford 1941- 45; Senior Classics Master, Magdalen College School, Oxford 1943-48; Senior Lecturer in Humanity, St Andrews University 1948-51; Professor of Latin, Liverpool University 1951-54; Kennedy Professor of Latin, Cambridge University 1954-74; Fellow, Gonville and Caius College 1955-94; FBA 1964; Chairman, Classics Committee, Schools Council 1965-69.
One of the great generation of the Jewish intellectual diaspora from Nazi Germany. He was born at Berlin, the son of a Jewish lawyer named Levy. He turned to classical studies at the University of Berlin. In 1933 he joined the editorial staff ofthe monumental Latin dictionery, the "Thesaurus Lingua Latinae at Munich. This elephantine project of grandiose ambition had begun in the nineteenth century; it is not yet completed in the twenty-first century. Brink served on the international commission that directed the project after the War. Every latin word was to be minutely examined and explained; in the 1970's members of the team were expected to spend a month on one word. Brink's contributions included the word 'homo'. In 1938 he fled Hitler's regime and settled in England. As a German he was briefly interned by the British government at the outbreak of the war. He taught at Oxford. He went to St. Andrew's University as a lecturer in 1948, then in 1951 to a chair at Liverpool, and then in 1954, the Kennedy chair of Latin at Cambridge. Brink's studies embraced Greek philosphy, Latin grammar and philogy, and the history of classical scholarship. His best-known achievement was three volumes of exegesis of the poet Horace. Horace had never been exposed to such intensive line-by-line scrutiny, mingling grammar, rhetoric, aesthetics, and codicology. he took a fellowship at Caius, and was leading candidate for the Mastership in 1958. He did not at first support the admission of women to the college. He took a principal role, as chairman of the Trustees, in the founding of Robinson College, which opened in 1979 and which involved much diplomatic nursing of the donor David Robinson. He was a distant and unsmiling figure to those who did not know him. He seemed fixed at a certain age; he conducted lecture tours of the Continent and America in his eighties. He was an accomplished pianist, and one imagined a career as a conductor. He met his wife at a weeding party, an exercise by Land Army volunteers during the War. There is a portrait at Robinson College.
He died on 2 March 1994 in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, some days after suffering a heart attack in his college rooms. He was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on March 10, 1994; his ashes were interred in St Giles's cemetery on 11 April 1994.
See ODNB.
Born Karl Oskar Levy, classicist. Acting Classical Tutor, Magdalen College, Oxford 1941- 45; Senior Classics Master, Magdalen College School, Oxford 1943-48; Senior Lecturer in Humanity, St Andrews University 1948-51; Professor of Latin, Liverpool University 1951-54; Kennedy Professor of Latin, Cambridge University 1954-74; Fellow, Gonville and Caius College 1955-94; FBA 1964; Chairman, Classics Committee, Schools Council 1965-69.
One of the great generation of the Jewish intellectual diaspora from Nazi Germany. He was born at Berlin, the son of a Jewish lawyer named Levy. He turned to classical studies at the University of Berlin. In 1933 he joined the editorial staff ofthe monumental Latin dictionery, the "Thesaurus Lingua Latinae at Munich. This elephantine project of grandiose ambition had begun in the nineteenth century; it is not yet completed in the twenty-first century. Brink served on the international commission that directed the project after the War. Every latin word was to be minutely examined and explained; in the 1970's members of the team were expected to spend a month on one word. Brink's contributions included the word 'homo'. In 1938 he fled Hitler's regime and settled in England. As a German he was briefly interned by the British government at the outbreak of the war. He taught at Oxford. He went to St. Andrew's University as a lecturer in 1948, then in 1951 to a chair at Liverpool, and then in 1954, the Kennedy chair of Latin at Cambridge. Brink's studies embraced Greek philosphy, Latin grammar and philogy, and the history of classical scholarship. His best-known achievement was three volumes of exegesis of the poet Horace. Horace had never been exposed to such intensive line-by-line scrutiny, mingling grammar, rhetoric, aesthetics, and codicology. he took a fellowship at Caius, and was leading candidate for the Mastership in 1958. He did not at first support the admission of women to the college. He took a principal role, as chairman of the Trustees, in the founding of Robinson College, which opened in 1979 and which involved much diplomatic nursing of the donor David Robinson. He was a distant and unsmiling figure to those who did not know him. He seemed fixed at a certain age; he conducted lecture tours of the Continent and America in his eighties. He was an accomplished pianist, and one imagined a career as a conductor. He met his wife at a weeding party, an exercise by Land Army volunteers during the War. There is a portrait at Robinson College.
He died on 2 March 1994 in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, some days after suffering a heart attack in his college rooms. He was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on March 10, 1994; his ashes were interred in St Giles's cemetery on 11 April 1994.
See ODNB.
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