Reginald Hackforth

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Reginald Hackforth (born 17 August 1887 in London, died 6 May 1957 in Cambridge)^[1] was an English classical scholar and from 1939 to 1952 was the second Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University.

Hackforth was a Fellow of the British Academy.

[edit] Publications

• The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles, Manchester 1913
• The composition of Plato's Apology, Cambridge 1933
• Plato's examination of pleasure: a translation of the Philebus with an introduction and commentary, Cambridge 1945
• Plato's Phaedrus: translated with an introduction and commentary, Cambridge 1952
• Plato's Phaedo: translated with an introduction and commentary, Cambridge 1955

Academic offices
Preceded by Francis Macdonald Cornford	Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Cambridge University 1939 - 1952	Succeeded by William Keith Chambers Guthrie

[edit] References

1. ^ Catologus Philogorum Classicorum 1880-1980