Ingram Bywater

Ingram Bywater, FBA (27 June 1840 – 18 December 1914 ) was an English writer and scholar. He was well known for his philosophical works on Aristotle, in particular Nicomachean Ethics.

Life He was born in Islington, London and first educated first at University College School and King's College School, then at Queen's College, Oxford. He obtained a first class in Moderations (1860) and in the final classical schools (1862), and became fellow of Exeter College, Oxford (1863), reader in Greek (1883), Regius Professor of Greek (1893–1908), and Student of Christ Church. He received honorary degrees from various universities, and was elected corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

He is chiefly known for his editions of Greek philosophical works: Heracliti Ephesii Reliquiae (1877); Prisciani Lydi quae extant (edited for the Berlin Academy in the Supplementum Aristotelicum, 1886); Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea (1890), De Arte Poetica (1898); Contributions to the Textual Criticism of the Nicomachean Ethics (1892). The collection also spans numerous languages including Latin, Greek, Italian and German.

Some of the collection is available to view via the Digital Bodleian website.