Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve , was an American classical scholar.
He was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Emma Louisa Lanneau and Benjamin Gildersleeve . His father was a Presbyterian evangelist, and editor of the Charleston Christian Observer from 1826 to 1845, of the Richmond Watchman and Observer from 1845 to 1856, and of The Central Presbyterian from 1856 to 1860. He graduated from Princeton in 1849 at the age of eighteen, and went on to study under Johannes Franz in Berlin, under Friedrich Ritschl at Bonn and under Schneidewin at Gttingen, where he received his doctors degree in 1853. From 1856 to 1876 he was professor of Greek at the University of Virginia, holding the chair of Latin also from 1861 to 1866. He married September 18, 1866 in Middlebury, Virginia to Eliza Fisher Colston.
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