Martin Joseph Routh

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Martin Joseph Routh (18 September 1755- 22 December 1854) was an English classical scholar born at South Elmham, Suffolk. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, and subsequently elected to a fellowship at Magdalen, of which society he became president in 1791. He died at Oxford and retained his physical and intellectual powers to the last.

He was the author of editions of the Euthydemus and Gorgias of Plato (1784), to which Karl Wilhelm Dindorf declared himself indebted for his first ideas of Greek criticism, and of Gilbert Burnet's History of his Own Time (2nd ed., 1833) and History of the Reign of King James the Second (1852). Routh was also an authority on patristic literature, his Reliquiae Sacrae (2nd ed., 184648), a collection of the fragments of the Fathers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, and Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum opuscula praecipua quaedam (2nd ed., 1840) being valuable contributions to ecclesiastical knowledge.

See Gentlemans Magazine, 1855; and J. W. Burgon's Lives of Twelve Good Men (1888).

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