Organisation End Date 1937 Wikidata ID Q2542556 Contribution He did groundbreaking work with his study of Latin and Celtic words and his work on early medieval glossaries laid the foundation for much of our modern study on the topic. Biographical Text Lindsay was educated at Glasgow University where he gained first-class honours in Classics and second-class honours in philosophy. He then went on to Balliol College Oxford where he gained a first-class honour in Classical moderations and literae Humaniores. He also spent some time at the University of Leipzig in Germany. Though Lindsay was a dedicated scholar, he did not like traditional, routine teaching. He prefered to spend his free time in the Scottish highlands or going on 10-mile walks in the nature around St Andrews. He was greatly admired by his students for his academic dedication and unconventional approach to education. 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 Wallace Martin Lindsay Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 258 Type The nature or genre of the resource Organisation Description An account of the resource Wallace Lindsay, a renowned Latinist and Classical scholar, was not your typical university professor. Though he certainly did not lack in scholarly achievements, he had a general dislike for traditional education and preferred to spend his time out in nature. Lindsay's time working at the University of St Andrews was coloured by change. The University itself was undergoing many new reforms and he was teaching at the University in 1892 when women were first admitted as full-time student Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1858 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource kn52 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/Q2542556