Souter , Alexander , 1873-1949 , Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis , Regius Professor of Humanity

Born in Perth, 1873; educated at Sharp's Educational Institution, Perth, and Robert Gordon's College and University, Aberdeen; graduated MA with First Class Honours in Classics and Jenkyns Prize in Classical Philology, Aberdeen University, 1893; Ferguson Scholar in Classics, 1893; Fullerton Scholar in Classics, 1894; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (Scholar); First Class in Classical Tripos, Part I, 1896, and Second Class, Part II, 1897; BA (Cambridge University), 1896; University Assistant in Humanity and Lecturer in Latin, 1897-1903, and Lecturer in Mediæval Palæography, Aberdeen University, 1903; DLitt (Aberdeen), 1905; Yates Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis and Librarian, Mansfield College Oxford, 1903-1911; MA (Oxford University), 1908; Regius Professor of Humanity, Aberdeen University, 1911-1937; Lecturer in Mediæval Palæography, Aberdeen University, 1913-1937; Curator of Aberdeen University Library, 1919-1924, 1927-1928; Vice-Chancellor, Aberdeen University, 1935-1936; Stone Lecturer, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1924-1925, 1927-1928; Norton Lecturer, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, USA, 1924-1925; Russell Lecturer, Auburn Theological Seminary, USA, 1932-1933; Doctor of Divinity, St Andrews, 1923, Dublin, 1932; MA (Cambridge University), 1930; Doctor of Laws (Aberdeen), 1938; Fellow of the British Academy, 1926 (Member of Council, 1938-1947); awarded British Academy Medal for Biblical Studies, 1932; Corresponding Fellow of the Mediæval Academy of America, 1938; Active Member of the New Society of Letters of Lund (Sweden) 1927; died, 1949. Publications: edited Horæ Latinæ, by the late Robert Ogilvie (1901); edited, with George Middleton, Livy Book xxviii (1902); De Codicibus Manuscriptis Augustini Quæstionum (1905); A Study of Ambrosiaster (1905); edited Pseudo-Augustini Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti cxxvii (1908); Novum Testamentum Graece (1910, second edition 1947); Text and Canon of the New Testament (1913); A Pocket Lexicon to the Greek New Testament (1916); Tertullian's Apology, Notes of the late Professor John E B Mayor (1917); Tertullian's Treatises translated (3 volumes, 1919, 1920, 1922); Pelagius's Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St Paul, i: Introduction (1922), ii: Text (1926), iii: Appendix (1931); part author of Novum Testamentum S Irenaei by Sanday, Turner, etc (1923); editor of Tertulliani Apologeticus (1926); The Earliest Latin Commentaries on the Epistles of St Paul (1927); edited C H Turner's The Oldest Manuscript of the Vulgate Gospels (1931); Glossary of the later Latin (1948); papers in various classical and theological journals.