Herbert A. (Herbert Augustus) Strong

Born in Devon, England, in 1841, Herbert Augustus Strong was educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He built a reputation as a classicist and humanist, and in 1873 he moved to Australia to become professor of classical and comparative philology at the University of Melbourne.

Strong played an important part in academic life there, teaching classics, comparative philology, and logic, and he later returned to England to take up a chair in Latin at University College, Liverpool. He is remembered as a serious scholar of language history as well as an influential university teacher.

His books include Introduction to the Study of the History of Language, a work associated with the growing modern study of linguistics in the late nineteenth century. He died in 1918, leaving behind a career that bridged classical scholarship and the emerging science of language.