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'''James Adam''' (7 April 1860 – 30 August 1907) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[classicist]] who taught classics at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]].
'''James Adam''' (1860–1907) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[classicist]]<ref name="frs">{{cite journal |last1=Carrington |first1=A. |last2=Hills |first2=G. J. |last3=Webb |first3=K. R. |title=Neil Kensington Adam 1891–1973 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1974.0001 |journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume=20 |pages=1–26 |year=1974 |jstor=769631}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge praelections of 1906: reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall |url=https://books.google.com/?id=jahfAAAAMAAJ&q=Neil+Kensington+Adam&dq=Neil+Kensington+Adam |editor-first=Christopher |editor-last=Stray |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge Philological Society |isbn=978-0-906014-27-1}}</ref> who taught Classics at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]].


==Life==
==Life==
He was born on 7 April 1860 in [[Kinmuck]] in the parish of Keithhall near [[Inverurie]], [[Aberdeenshire]]. He was educated at the Old Grammar School in [[Old Aberdeen]], at the [[University of Aberdeen]] where he studied under [[William Duguid Geddes|William Geddes]] and gained his B.A. as Senior Classic in 1884, and at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] where he graduated as M.A. in 1888.<ref>{{acad|id=ADN880J|name=Adam, James}}</ref>
James Adam was born on 7 April 1860 in [[Kinmuck]] in the parish of Keithhall near [[Inverurie]], [[Aberdeenshire]].<ref name=":1" /> He was the second son of James Adam, a shopkeeper and former farm servant, and of Adam's wife Barbara (''née'' Anderson), a farmer's daughter.<ref name="frs">{{cite journal |last1=Carrington |first1=A. |last2=Hills |first2=G. J. |last3=Webb |first3=K. R. |title=Neil Kensington Adam 1891–1973 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1974.0001 |journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume=20 |pages=1–26 |year=1974 |jstor=769631|doi-access=free }}</ref>{{rp|1}} The younger James was educated at the Old Grammar School in [[Old Aberdeen]], at the [[University of Aberdeen]] where he studied under [[William Duguid Geddes|William Geddes]] and gained his B.A. as Senior Classic in 1880.<ref>{{Cite wikisource|title=Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement|date=1912|first=Peter|last=Giles|wslanguage=en|wslink=Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/Adam, James|volume=1|chapter=Adam, James}}</ref> He subsequently moved to [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]] in the same year,<ref name=":0">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jahfAAAAMAAJ&q=Neil+Kensington+Adam |title=The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge praelections of 1906: reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge Philological Society |isbn=978-0-906014-27-1 |editor-last=Stray |editor-first=Christopher}}</ref>{{Rp|page=47}} receiving his Cambridge B.A. in 1884.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |date=1907 |title=Obituary: Dr. James Adam |journal=The Classical Review |volume=21 |issue=8 |pages=250 |doi=10.1017/S0009840X00180485|doi-access=free }}</ref>


In 1884 Adam was appointed Junior Fellow and soon thereafter Senior Lecturer in the Classics at Emmanuel College.
In 1884 Adam was appointed Junior Fellow and soon thereafter Senior Lecturer in the Classics at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College]]. He began lecturing on Greek poetry and philosophy in December 1884.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=52}} He was awarded his M.A. by Emmanuel in 1888, and his Litt. D. in 1903.<ref name="auto">{{acad|id=ADN880J|name=Adam, James}}</ref> He later became Senior Tutor at the college; he moved into the Senior Tutor's house in 1900.<ref name="frs" />{{rp|1–2}}


In 1890, a former student of his, Adele Marion (''née'' Kensington) (1866–1944),<ref name="frs"/> became his wife and lifelong collaborator. Their daughter, Barbara Frances (1897–1988), was the British sociologist and criminologist, Lady [[Barbara Wootton]], one of their sons, Captain Arthur Innes Adam, was killed in France on 16 September 1916<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/294703/ADAM,%20ARTHUR%20INNES |title=Casualty Details: Arthur Innes Adam |work=[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]] |accessdate=27 March 2017}}</ref> and another son, [[Neil Kensington Adam]],<ref name="frs"/> became a noted chemist.
One of Adam's duties at Cambridge was to teach the students of [[Girton College, Cambridge|Girton College]], which was then open only to women.<ref name="frs" />{{rp|2}} In 1890, a former Girton student of his, [[Adela Marion Adam|Adela Marion]] (''née'' Kensington) (1866–1944),<ref name="frs"/> became his wife and lifelong collaborator. Their daughter, Barbara Frances (1897–1988), was the British sociologist and criminologist Lady [[Barbara Wootton]]; one of their sons, Captain Arthur Innes Adam, was killed in France on 16 September 1916;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/294703/ADAM,%20ARTHUR%20INNES |title=Casualty Details: Arthur Innes Adam |work=[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]] |access-date=27 March 2017}}</ref> and another son, [[Neil Kensington Adam]],<ref name="frs"/> became a noted chemist.


Adam was "one of the greatest Platonists of his generation".<ref name="frs"/> His editions and commentaries on [[Plato]]'s ''Apology'', ''Crito'', ''Euthyphro'', ''Protagoras'', and the ''Republic'' are widely respected even today:
Adam was "one of the greatest Platonists of his generation".<ref name="frs"/> His editions and commentaries on [[Plato]]'s ''Apology'', ''Crito'', ''Euthyphro'', ''Protagoras'', and the ''Republic'' are widely respected even today:


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[His] two-volume critical edition of the ''Republic'' was another major contribution to the field. Though his preface claims 'an editor cannot pretend to have exhausted its significance by means of a commentary,' Adam's depth of knowledge and erudite analysis of the Greek text ensured that his edition remained the standard reference for decades to follow, and it remains a thought-provoking evaluation of one of the great works of Western thought.<ref> [https://philpapers.org/rec/ADATRO-10 James Adam (ed.), "The Republic of Plato"], [[PhilPapers]]. Retrieved 23 May 2017.</ref>
[His] two-volume critical edition of the ''Republic'' was another major contribution to the field. Though his preface claims 'an editor cannot pretend to have exhausted its significance by means of a commentary,' Adam's depth of knowledge and erudite analysis of the Greek text ensured that his edition remained the standard reference for decades to follow, and it remains a thought-provoking evaluation of one of the great works of Western thought.<ref>[https://philpapers.org/rec/ADATRO-10 James Adam (ed.), "The Republic of Plato"], [[PhilPapers]]. Retrieved 23 May 2017.</ref>
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He was a "strong defender of the importance of Greek philosophy in a well-rounded education"<ref>[http://www.cambridge.org/nu/academic/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-philosophy/republic-plato-volume-2-1 The Republic of Plato, Volume 2. Books VI–X and Indexes], cambridge.org. Retrieved 23 May 2017.</ref> and "a resolute opponent of all attempts to make Greek an optional study".<ref>{{acad|id=ADN880J|name=Adam, James}}</ref> He was also a "keen supporter of the claims of women to degrees, when the question came before the senate of the university in 1897"<ref>Peter Giles, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30331 "Adam, James (1860–1907)"], rev. Mark J. Schofield, ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 23 May 2017.</ref>
He was a "strong defender of the importance of Greek philosophy in a well-rounded education"<ref>[http://www.cambridge.org/nu/academic/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-philosophy/republic-plato-volume-2-1 The Republic of Plato, Volume 2. Books VI–X and Indexes], cambridge.org. Retrieved 23 May 2017.</ref> and "a resolute opponent of all attempts to make Greek an optional study".<ref name="auto"/> He was also a "keen supporter of the claims of women to degrees, when the question came before the senate of the university in 1897"<ref name=odnb>{{cite ODNB|id=30331|title=Adam, James (1860–1907), classical scholar and philosopher |first1=Peter|last1=Giles| first2=Mark J. |last2=Schofield|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30331|accessdate= 23 May 2017}}</ref>


In 1904 and 1905 Adam delivered the [[Gifford Lectures]] at Aberdeen, choosing for his subject "The Religious Teachers of Greece".
In 1904 and 1905 Adam delivered the [[Gifford Lectures]] at Aberdeen, choosing for his subject "The Religious Teachers of Greece".
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==Editions and commentaries on Plato==
==Editions and commentaries on Plato==
*''Platonis Apologia Socratis''. Cambridge University Press, 1887.
*''[https://archive.org/details/platonisapologia00plat/page/n5/mode/2up Platonis Apologia Socratis]''. Cambridge University Press, 1887. New edition, 1891.
*''Platonis Crito''. Cambridge University Press, 1888. 2nd edition, 1893.
*''[https://archive.org/details/platoniscrito00plat/page/n7/mode/2up Platonis Crito]''. Cambridge University Press, 1888. 2nd edition, 1893.
*''Platonis Euthyphro''. Cambridge University Press, 1890.
*''[https://archive.org/details/platoniseuthyphr00platrich/page/n7/mode/2up Platonis Euthyphro]''. Cambridge University Press, 1890.
*''Platonis Protagoras''. Cambridge University Press, 1893 with Adele Marion Adam.
*''[https://archive.org/details/platonisprotagor0000plat/page/n7/mode/2up Platonis Protagoras]''. Cambridge University Press, 1893 with Adela Marion Adam.
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=9dQNAQAAIAAJ ''The Republic of Plato'']. Cambridge University Press, 1897. {{cite book|title=Republic of Plato, Books I–V|year=1902|url=https://archive.org/details/republicofplato00plat_0}} {{cite book|title=Republic of Plato, Books VI–X and indices|year=1902|url=https://archive.org/details/republicofplato0002plat}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''The Republic of Plato'' edited by James Adam, vols. I & II|journal=The Athenaeum|issue=3946|date=June 13, 1903|pages=751–752|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oKA5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA751}}</ref> 2nd edition edited by D. A. Rees, 1965.
*''The Republic of Plato''. Cambridge University Press, 1899. 2nd edition edited by D. A. Rees, 1965.


==Other writings==
==Other writings==
*''The Nuptial Number of Plato: its Solution and Significance''. 1891.
*''[https://archive.org/details/nuptialnumberpl00adamgoog The Nuptial Number of Plato: its Solution and Significance]''. 1891.
*''The Intellectual and Ethical Value of Classical Education''. Cambridge, 1895.
*''[https://archive.org/details/intellectualethi00adam/page/n3/mode/2up The Intellectual and Ethical Value of Classical Education]''. Cambridge, 1895.
*''[https://archive.org/stream/religiousteache00marigoog#page/n11/mode/1up The Religious Teachers of Greece: Being Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Aberdeen]''. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1908. Edited, with a memoir, by Adela Marion Adam from the [[Gifford Lectures]] delivered in 1904-06.
*''[https://archive.org/stream/religiousteache00marigoog#page/n11/mode/1up The Religious Teachers of Greece: Being Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Aberdeen]''. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1908. Edited, with a memoir, by Adela Marion Adam from the [[Gifford Lectures]] delivered in 1904–06.
*''The Vitality of Platonism, and Other Essays''. Edited and published by A.M. Adam in 1911.
*''[https://archive.org/details/vitalityofplaton00adamrich The Vitality of Platonism, and Other Essays]''. Edited and published by A.M. Adam in 1911.


==References==
==References==
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*{{Internet Archive author |sname=James Adam |birth=1860 |death=1907 |sopt=t}}
*{{Internet Archive author |sname=James Adam |birth=1860 |death=1907 |sopt=t}}
*[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=4 Gifford Lecture Series - Authors], includes short bio and a link to view Adam's ''Religious Teachers of Greece''.
*[http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=4 Gifford Lecture Series - Authors], includes short bio and a link to view Adam's ''Religious Teachers of Greece''.
*[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0093&query=toc&layout=&loc=VI%20314D J. Adam & A.M. Adam's Commentary on the Protagoras at Perseus]
*[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0093&query=toc&layout=&loc=VI%20314D J. Adam & A.M. Adam's Commentary on the Protagoras at Perseus]
*[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0094;layout=;loc=1.327A;query=toc Adam's Commentary on the Republic at Perseus]
*[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0094;layout=;loc=1.327A;query=toc Adam's Commentary on the Republic at Perseus]
*[https://archive.org/stream/republicplato00plat#page/n8/mode/1up The Republic of Plato, edited with critical notes and introduction on the text by James Adam.], Cambridge: University Press, 1900 (reprint of the first edition of 1899).
*[https://archive.org/stream/republicplato00plat#page/n8/mode/1up The Republic of Plato, edited with critical notes and introduction on the text by James Adam.], Cambridge: University Press, 1900 (reprint of the first edition of 1899).


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For the Scottish architect, see James Adam (architect).

James Adam
James Adam
James Adam
Born(1860-04-07)7 April 1860
Kinmuck, Keithhall, Aberdeen, Scotland
Died30 August 1907(1907-08-30) (aged 47)
Aberdeen, Scotland
OccupationAcademic
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Notable worksPlatonis Crito
The Republic of Plato
The Religious Teachers of Greece
SpouseAdela Marion Adam (née Kensington)
Children3, Barbara, Arthur, Neil

James Adam (7 April 1860 – 30 August 1907) was a Scottish classicist who taught classics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Life

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James Adam was born on 7 April 1860 in Kinmuck in the parish of Keithhall near Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.[1] He was the second son of James Adam, a shopkeeper and former farm servant, and of Adam's wife Barbara (née Anderson), a farmer's daughter.[2]: 1  The younger James was educated at the Old Grammar School in Old Aberdeen, at the University of Aberdeen where he studied under William Geddes and gained his B.A. as Senior Classic in 1880.[3] He subsequently moved to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in the same year,[4]: 47  receiving his Cambridge B.A. in 1884.[1]

In 1884 Adam was appointed Junior Fellow and soon thereafter Senior Lecturer in the Classics at Emmanuel College. He began lecturing on Greek poetry and philosophy in December 1884.[4]: 52  He was awarded his M.A. by Emmanuel in 1888, and his Litt. D. in 1903.[5] He later became Senior Tutor at the college; he moved into the Senior Tutor's house in 1900.[2]: 1–2 

One of Adam's duties at Cambridge was to teach the students of Girton College, which was then open only to women.[2]: 2  In 1890, a former Girton student of his, Adela Marion (née Kensington) (1866–1944),[2] became his wife and lifelong collaborator. Their daughter, Barbara Frances (1897–1988), was the British sociologist and criminologist Lady Barbara Wootton; one of their sons, Captain Arthur Innes Adam, was killed in France on 16 September 1916;[6] and another son, Neil Kensington Adam,[2] became a noted chemist.

Adam was "one of the greatest Platonists of his generation".[2] His editions and commentaries on Plato's Apology, Crito, Euthyphro, Protagoras, and the Republic are widely respected even today:

[His] two-volume critical edition of the Republic was another major contribution to the field. Though his preface claims 'an editor cannot pretend to have exhausted its significance by means of a commentary,' Adam's depth of knowledge and erudite analysis of the Greek text ensured that his edition remained the standard reference for decades to follow, and it remains a thought-provoking evaluation of one of the great works of Western thought.[7]

He was a "strong defender of the importance of Greek philosophy in a well-rounded education"[8] and "a resolute opponent of all attempts to make Greek an optional study".[5] He was also a "keen supporter of the claims of women to degrees, when the question came before the senate of the university in 1897"[9]

In 1904 and 1905 Adam delivered the Gifford Lectures at Aberdeen, choosing for his subject "The Religious Teachers of Greece".

He died in Aberdeen on 30 August 1907.

Editions and commentaries on Plato

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  • Platonis Apologia Socratis. Cambridge University Press, 1887. New edition, 1891.
  • Platonis Crito. Cambridge University Press, 1888. 2nd edition, 1893.
  • Platonis Euthyphro. Cambridge University Press, 1890.
  • Platonis Protagoras. Cambridge University Press, 1893 with Adela Marion Adam.
  • The Republic of Plato. Cambridge University Press, 1897. Republic of Plato, Books I–V. 1902. Republic of Plato, Books VI–X and indices. 1902.[10] 2nd edition edited by D. A. Rees, 1965.

Other writings

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Obituary: Dr. James Adam". The Classical Review. 21 (8): 250. 1907. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00180485.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Carrington, A.; Hills, G. J.; Webb, K. R. (1974). "Neil Kensington Adam 1891–1973". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 20: 1–26. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1974.0001. JSTOR 769631.
  3. ^ Giles, Peter (1912). "Adam, James" . Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement . Vol. 1 – via Wikisource.
  4. ^ a b Stray, Christopher, ed. (2005). The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge praelections of 1906: reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall. Cambridge Philological Society. ISBN 978-0-906014-27-1.
  5. ^ a b "Adam, James (ADN880J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. ^ "Casualty Details: Arthur Innes Adam". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  7. ^ James Adam (ed.), "The Republic of Plato", PhilPapers. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  8. ^ The Republic of Plato, Volume 2. Books VI–X and Indexes, cambridge.org. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  9. ^ Giles, Peter; Schofield, Mark J. "Adam, James (1860–1907), classical scholar and philosopher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30331. Retrieved 23 May 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. ^ "Review of The Republic of Plato edited by James Adam, vols. I & II". The Athenaeum (3946): 751–752. 13 June 1903.
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