John Colin Dunlop

John Colin Dunlop

John Colin Dunlop (circa 1785 - 1842), historian, son of a Lord Provost of Glasgow, Scotland, where and at Edinburgh he was educated, was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1807, and became Sheriff of Renfrewshire. He wrote a "History of Fiction" (1814), a "History of Roman Literature to the Augustan Age" (1823-28), and "Memoirs of Spain during the Reigns of Philip IV. and Charles II."(1834). He also made translations from the Latin Anthology.

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* [http://ub-dok.uni-trier.de/dunlop/inhalt.htm Table of contents of the German translation (Leipzig 1851, enlarged ed.) of Dunlop's "History of Fiction" and biographical article from "Dictionary of National Biography" (1908)


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