Hugh Blair
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Hugh Blair was an 18th-century Scottish minister, rhetorician, and literary critic whose influential lectures and writings made him a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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| instanceOf |
Scottish Enlightenment figure
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Scottish minister → human → literary critic → rhetorician → |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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| educatedAt |
University of Edinburgh
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| employer |
University of Edinburgh
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| ethnicGroup |
Scottish
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| fieldOfWork |
belles-lettres
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literary criticism → rhetoric → |
| genre |
essay
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literary criticism → sermon → |
| influenced |
development of English literary criticism
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teaching of rhetoric in Britain → |
| influencedBy |
Scottish Enlightenment philosophy
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| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Scots → |
| memberOf |
Church of Scotland
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| movement |
Scottish Enlightenment
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| name |
Hugh Blair
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| notableFor |
influential lectures on rhetoric at the University of Edinburgh
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popularizing rhetoric and belles-lettres as academic disciplines → role in the reception of the Ossian poems → |
| notableWork |
A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres → |
| occupation |
literary critic
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minister → rhetorician → university professor → |
| placeOfBirth |
Edinburgh
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| placeOfDeath |
Edinburgh
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| positionHeld |
Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh
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| religion |
Presbyterianism
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Scottish Enlightenment
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Select Society
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Hugh Blair
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