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Record for: CORNFORD, Professor F M (27/02/1874-03/01/1943)

Specialisms: classics

Appointments: Brereton-Laurence Reader in Classics, University of Cambridge 1927-31; Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge 1931-9.

Principal publications: Origin of Attic comedy, 1914; Plato’s theory of knowledge, 1935; Plato’s cosmology, 1937; Plato and Parmenides, 1939.

Elected to the Fellowship: 1937 § 5