Mungo William MacCallum
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Sir Mungo William MacCallum (26 February 1854–3 September 1942) was Chancellor of the University of Sydney from 1934 to 1936, and a noted literary critic.
Sir Mungo was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied at the University of Glasgow and at Berlin and Leipzig.
He became Professor of Literature at the University of Wales in 1879, but moved to Sydney in 1887 to take up the post of Foundation Professor of Modern Language and Literature at Sydney University. In 1898 he was made Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and became Chancellor of the university in 1934. The Mungo MacCallum Building at the University of Sydney was named in his honour.
Sir Mungo wrote a number of works of literary criticism on English and German literature, and is most notable for his work on Shakespeare.
He married Dorette Margaretha Peters in 1882 and had three children. A daughter, Isabella Renton MacCallum, and two sons: Mungo Lorenz MacCallum, (1884–1934), Rhodes scholar in 1906, who would go on to lecture in Roman Law at the University of Sydney; and Walter Paton MacCallum, who became a Colonel in the army.
[edit] Critical legacy
In his 1967 foreword to Shakespeare's Roman Plays and Their Background, Terence Spencer of the Shakespeare Institute judged MacCallum's "indispensible" 1910 book as unusual in having "outlasted changes of fashion in criticism."
[edit] External links
- National Library Search - list of publications held by the NLA by Sir Mungo William MacCallum or his descendants
- Sir Mungo William MacCallum (1854-1942) - Sydney University History biography of Sir Mungo
