Organisation End Date 1928 Wikidata ID Q725050 Contribution Several important contributions to Classical scholarship including a critical edition of the whole works of Plato in the Oxford Classical Texts and a book called 'early greek philosophy' Misc Helped found of Classical Association of Scotland. Biographical Text John Burnet was a Greek scholar from Edinburgh. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. He had a short stay at the College de France and was a residence at Oxford and Balliol College in 1883. He left Oxford in 1887 but entered into another residence at Merton College in 1888. He then held a temporary teaching position in St Andrews in 1890-91 and was elected as professor of Greek in 1891 and remained in this position until his retirement. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Burnet Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. John Burnet Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 257 Type The nature or genre of the resource Organisation Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource kn52 Description An account of the resource Scottish classical and Greek scholar Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q725050