Maurice Platnauer
Maurice Platnauer (18 June 1887 – 19 December 1974) was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1956 to 1960. Platnauer was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. A classicist, he was a master at Winchester College from 1910 to 1915; and from 1919 to 1922: during World War One he was an officer with the Royal Garrison Artillery. in 1922 he became a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He was Vice-Principal of Brasenose from 1936 to 1956; and Editor of the Classical Quarterly from 1936 to 1947; and an Honorary Fellow of New College from 1957