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ROUTH, MARTIN JOSEPH (1755–1854)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 780 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROUTH, See also:MARTIN See also:JOSEPH (1755–1854) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:South See also:Elmham, See also:Suffolk, on the 18th of See also:September 1755. He was educated at See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Oxford, and subsequently elected to a fellowship at Magdalen, of which society he became See also:president in 1791. He died at Oxford on the 22nd of See also:December 1854, and retained his See also:physical and intellectual See also:powers to the last. He was the author of See also:editions of the See also:Euthydemus and See also:Gorgias of See also:Plato (1784), to which See also:Dindorf declared himself indebted for his first ideas of See also:Greek See also:criticism, and of See also:Bishop See also:Burnet's See also:History of his Own See also:Time (2nd ed., 1833) and History of the Reign of See also:King See also:James the Second (1852). Routh was also an authority on patristic literature, his Reliquiae Sacrae (2nd ed., 1846–48), a collection of the fragments of the Fathers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, and Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula praecipua quaedam (2nd ed., 184o) being valuable contributions to ecclesiastical knowledge. See See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, 1835; J. W. See also:Burgon, Lives of Twelve See also:Good Men (1888).

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