Gordon Jennings Laing
Gordon Jennings Laing (October 16, 1869 – September 1, 1945) was an
American classical scholar, born in
London, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the
University of Toronto in 1891, taught
Latin and
Greek at Whetham College,
Vancouver, British Columbia (1892-1893), and at the
University of Toronto (1893-1895). He took the degree of
Ph.D. at
Johns Hopkins University in 1896, after which he taught and served at Bryn Mawr (1897–99), Chicago (1899-1921), McGill (1921–23), and Chicago (1923–35). He was managing editor of the ''Classical Journal'' from 1905 to 1908, associate editor of ''Classical Philology'' after 1905, and general editor of the
University of Chicago Press after 1908. His publications include ''Masterpieces in Latin Literature'' (Boston, 1903), an edition of ''Selections from Ovid'' (New York, 1905), and an edition of the ''Phormio'' of
Terence (Chicago, 1908), as well as ''Survivals of Roman Religion'' (1931). The
Gordon J. Laing Award from the University of Chicago Press is named in his honor. In 1939, he was the commencement speaker at
Washington University in St. Louis.
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