Herbert Strong (philologist)

Herbert Augustus Strong (24 November 1841 – 13 January 1918) was an Australian scholar, professor of comparative philology and logic at the University of Melbourne.

[1] Strong was born at Clyst St Mary near Exeter, England the third [2] son of Rev.

[1] In 1872, Strong was appointed professor of classical and comparative philology and logic at the University of Melbourne, replacing Martin Howy Irving.

In 1884 Strong became professor of Latin at the newly founded University College in Liverpool[1] and held the chair until his retirement in 1909.

In addition to minor educational works and editions of Latin poets Catullus and Juvenal, Strong wrote with Kuno Meyer an Outline of a History of the German Language (1886), and with W. S. Logeman and B. I. Wheeler an Introduction to the Study of the History of Language (1891).