page_title: Edward Adolf Sonnenschein
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Adolf Sonnenschein / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Mason Science College, Edmund Street, Birmingham. On the site of the current Central Library.
context_page_description: Edward Adolf Sonnenschein was an English classical scholar and writer on Latin grammar and verse.
context_section_description: Sonnenschein was educated at University College School and then in 1868 at University College London.
  He was appointed Oxford professor of Greek and Latin at Mason College (afterwards the University of Birmingham) in 1883, staying there until 1918. He was a Plautine scholar, publishing editions of Captivi (1879), Mostellaria (1884), and Rudens (1891). He took up the reform of grammar teaching, and published the "Parallel Grammar" series. With John Percival Postgate, he founded the Classical Association in 1903.
  Much of his grammatical research was summed up in The Unity of the Latin Subjunctive (1910) and The Soul of Grammar (1927). He insisted upon the humanities taking their proper place in the modern university, and took up the question of war-guilt during the European war; he was a very exact scholar.
caption: Mason College, now the University of Birmingham
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