Professor G. O. Hutchinson FBA | |
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Born | Gregory Owen Hutchinson 5 December 1957 |
Nationality | British |
Title | Regius Professor of Greek |
Spouse | Yvonne Downing (m. 1979) |
Children | One |
Academic background | |
Education | City of London School |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Thesis | "Aeschylus' Septem Contra Thebas: Text and commentary" (1983) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Latin literature Ancient Greek literature Latin language Ancient Greek language |
Institutions | Christ Church,Oxford Exeter College,Oxford Faculty of Classics,University of Oxford |
Gregory Owen Hutchinson (born 5 December 1957),known as G. O. Hutchinson,is a British classicist and academic,specialising in Latin literature,Ancient Greek literature,and Latin and Ancient Greek languages. Since October 2015,he has been the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford,and a Student (i.e. Fellow) of Christ Church,Oxford.
Hutchinson was born on 5 December 1957 in Hackney,London,England. [1] [2] He was educated at the City of London School,an all-boys private school in the City of London;he had been granted one of the free places funded by the Inner London Education Authority. [2] He studied classics at Balliol College,Oxford,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1979. [1] [3] He remained at Balliol to undertake postgraduate research and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1983. [1] [2] [3] His doctoral thesis was titled "Aeschylus' Septem Contra Thebas :Text and commentary". [4]
From 1981 to 1984,while a postgraduate student,Hutchinson was also a research lecturer at Christ Church,Oxford. [1] In 1984,he was elected a Fellow of Exeter College,Oxford. [5] He was then a Tutor in classics at Exeter between 1984 and 2015. [1] From 1996 to 1998,he was also Reader in Classical Literature in the Faculty of Classics. [1] From 1998 to 2015,he was also Professor of Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford. [2]
In June 2015,Hutchinson was named as the next Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford following the retirement of Christopher Pelling,FBA,earlier in the year. [3] He took up the appointment on 1 October 2015 and moved colleges to become a Student (equivalent to a fellow) of Christ Church,Oxford. [5] [6]
In 1979,Hutchinson married Yvonne Downing. Together they have one daughter. [1]
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