GUTHRIE, Kenneth Sylvan Launfal. Dundee 22.7.1871 — 1940. British (Scottish) Philosopher and Historian of Philosophy in the U.S.A. Son of William Eugene Guthrie and Frances Silva D’Arusmont (1832–1903). The family was travelling, he was educated in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Scotland and U.S.A. Studied in the U.S.A., at University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee (B.A. 1890, M.A. and G.D. 1893). Ph.D. 1893 Tulane University. A.M. 1894 Harvard. Ordained Episcopal deacon 1890, priest 1897. M.D. 1903 Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. Second Ph.D. 1915 Columbia. Worked as teacher, author and lecturer. Ne never got an academic position and had financial difficulties. He was characterized as a “brilliant but eccentric scholar”. He was also an active prohibitionist, composer and poet.
Publications: The hymns of Zoroaster usually called the Gathas: for the first time made entirely accessible by transliterated text, translation, dictionary and grammar, introductory tables, analysis, higher and Biblical criticism, complete concordance and subject index. 1914.
– Much on Neoplatonism, e.g. complete translation of Plotinus, also on many other subjects.
Sources: Wikipedia.
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