Magnus Maclean | Mànus MacGill-Eain (1858, Fasach, Skye – 1937) was a scientist, expert in physics and mathematics, and a Gaelic scholar, the first to take the post of Lecturer in Celtic at the University of Glasgow. His lectures were published in two volumes: The Literature of the Celts (1902) and The Literature of the Highlands (1903; reviewed in Guth na Bliadhna in Spring 1904).
Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals
- ‘Celtic Manuscripts’ [article, ENG], Volume I, Issue 1 (May 1901)
Resources
- T. M. Murchison, ‘Maclean, Dr Magnus,’ The Companion to Gaelic Scotland (Gairm, 1994)
- ‘Professor Magnus Maclean, 1901-1903,’ Sgeul na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu / The Gaelic Story at the University of Glasgow (2019)