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Herbert A. (Herbert Augustus) Strong
1841–1918
A Victorian-era scholar of language and the classics, he spent much of his career at the University of Melbourne and later became known for bringing ancient texts to new readers. His work ranged from comparative philology to translations such as Lucian's The Syrian Goddess.
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Introduction to the study of the history of language
by Herbert A. (Herbert Augustus) Strong, Willem Sijbrand Logeman, Benjamin Ide Wheeler
About the author
Born in Devon, England, on November 24, 1841, he was educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He built a reputation as a classicist and philologist, and in 1873 he moved to Australia to join the University of Melbourne, where he taught classics, comparative philology, and later logic.
He became an important figure in the university's early intellectual life and was remembered as a gifted teacher and humanist. After years in Melbourne, he returned to England in the 1880s, but he continued his scholarly work through writing, editing, and translation.
Readers may know him best from his literary and classical work, including a translation of Lucian's The Syrian Goddess. He died in 1918, leaving behind the record of a wide-ranging scholar whose career linked British and Australian academic life.