Thomas Blackwell (scholar): Difference between revisions

| name = Thomas Blackwell

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1701|8|4}}

| birth_place = [[Aberdeen]]

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1757|3|6|1701|8|14}}

| death_place = [[Edinburgh]]

| nationality = [[Scottish people|Scottish]]

| workplaces = [[Marischal College]]

| alma_mater = [[Marischal College]], [[University of Aberdeen]]

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| relatives = Thomas Blackwell (father), Christian Johnston (mother), Alexander Blackwell (brother)

| spouse = Barbara Black

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Blackwell's work enjoyed a high contemporary reputation, and for nearly half a century he was regarded as the foremost Homeric scholar in Europe. But his Scottish Whig politics attracted bitterly hostile criticism from conservatively minded English critics like [[Samuel Johnson]],<ref>Greene, Donald (2009). ''The Politics of Samuel Johnson''. University of Georgia Press, p. 173.</ref> and his achievement was long cast into the shadow.<ref>"Inexplicably, historians have often made short shrift of Blackwell."—Norton (1991), p. 60 (footnote).</ref> He is only now beginning to re-emerge as one of the most distinctive and original thinkers of the [[Scottish Enlightenment]].

* [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]]{{dn|date=June 2022}}