Henry Stewart Macran
(1867-1937) Irish philosopher and academic
About Henry Stewart Macran
Lived 1867 – 1937 (aged 69–70). Henry Stewart Macran was a British writer, philosopher, academic and musicologist.
Henry Stewart Macran (1867–1937) was an Irish philosopher and internationally recognized scholar of Hegel's philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.
Life and works Macran was an undergraduate during 1882–1886, he became a fellow in 1892 and subsequently professor of moral philosophy (1901–1934) and history of philosophy (1934–1937) at Trinity College Dublin. In 1941 a Henry Stewart Macran Prize was named in his memory, for graduate students who write the best examination on Hegel's system of philosophy and an essay ‘on a subject of a metaphysical or ethical and not merely psychological or logical character’.
Macran provided the first translation of Aristoxenus's Elementa harmonica into English (Oxford, 1902).
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(1867-1937) Irish philosopher and academic
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Henry Stewart Macran was born in 1867.
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Henry Stewart Macran died in 1937.
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Henry Stewart Macran was a writer, philosopher, academic and musicologist.
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