| 词条 | Eleanor Purdie |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Eleanor Purdie | image_size = | alt = | caption = Beard filming in Rome, 2012 | birth_date = 1872 | birth_place = Dalston, London | death_date = 5 May 1929 | death_place = Cheltenham | death_cause = | discipline = Classics | sub_discipline = philology | education = | alma_mater = University of Cambridge University of Fribourg | thesis_title = The Perfective 'Aktionsart' in Polybius (1898) | workplaces = Cheltenham Ladies' College | notable_works = Liviana | awards = }} Eleanor Purdie (died 5 May 1929) was an English philologist and the first woman to obtain a doctorate from the University of Fribourg. BiographyEleanor Purdie was born in Dalston in 1872 to Elizabeth White Blight and Walter C. F. Purdie. Her mother had been a proprietor of a family booksellers in Bideford, who, after her marriage continued to contribute to the family finances by working as a Berlin wool dealer. Her father was a bank clerk who was probably employed by Willis Percival, bankers in Lombard Street until their demise in 1878. She had two older siblings, Florence (who became Headmistress of the High School, Exeter){{sfn|NHHS Magazine|1905|p=30}} and Walter, and a younger brother Cecil.{{sfn|England Births|1872}}{{sfn|England Census|1881}} Purdie attended Notting Hill High School for seven years. In 1889, she obtained a St Dunstan's exhibition, which she then held for three years of undergraduate studies at Newnham College, Cambridge. She obtained a First class in both parts of the Classical Tripos in 1894.{{sfn|Leeds Mercury|1894|p=8}} At the time, women were not awarded degrees by Cambridge University, which posed bureaucratic problems for her when she applied to the University of Fribourg for her doctorate.{{sfn|Evans|2004|p=29}} A Marion Kennedy Studentship enabled her to become the first woman student at Fribourg. After a year of studying Sanskrit, Greek and Indo-Germanic philology, she took a Fellowship at Bryn Mawr College.{{sfn|NHHS Magazine|1930|p=20}} She obtained a PhD in classical philology from Fribourg in 1896 under the guidance of Wilhelm Streitberg, an Indo-Germanist.{{sfn|Altermatt|2009|p=276}} Purdie taught for a year at her high school, before joining the staff of Cheltenham Ladies' College in 1898.{{sfn|NHHS Magazine|1930|p=20}} She continued to teach there for 25 years, retiring in 1923 from the position of Senior Classical Mistress.{{sfn|Cheltenham Chronicle|1929|p=12}}{{sfn|Gloucestershire Echo|1929}} Besides her doctoral thesis, Purdie wrote several primers for Latin language instruction for high school. It has been pointed out that she also co-edited a collection of essays in comparative philology,{{sfn|Beard|2017}} although her contributions were relegated to the acknowledgements.{{sfn|Darbishire|1895|p=15}} Purdie was active in pedagogy, writing articles on women's education in the US, Germany and Switzerland.{{sfn|Purdie|1899|p=188}} She was also part of a movement to unify grammatical terminology, submitting a co-written report that made twenty-five recommendations for the standardisation of usage across languages, modern and ancient.{{sfn|Lodge|1910}} Purdie died on 5 May 1929,{{sfn|NHHS Magazine|1930|p=20}} and was interred in the Prestbury churchyard.{{sfn|Gloucestershire Echo|1929}} LegacyThe Eleanor Purdie Prize for Greek Composition was established in 1936 by Newnham College.{{sfn|CUC|1974|p=589}} WorksArticles
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11 : 1872 births|1929 deaths|English philologists|Classical philologists|University of Fribourg alumni|Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge|English classical scholars|Women classical scholars|Women philologists|People educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School|Cheltenham Ladies College faculty |
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