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The Gaisford Prize is a prize in the University of Oxford, founded in 1855 in memory of Dr Thomas Gaisford (1779–1855). For most of its history, the prize was awarded for Classical Greek Verse and Prose. The prizes now include the Gaisford Essay Prize and the Gaisford Dissertation Prize. ==History== Dr Thomas Gaisford, Dean of Christ Church, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford for more than forty years (1811–1855), died on 2 June 1855. Ten days later, at a meeting held in Christ Church on 12 June, it was resolved to establish a prize in his honour, to be called the Gaisford Prize, and to raise for that purpose £1,000 by public subscription, the interest to be applied "to reward a successful prizeman or prizemen, under such regulations as shall be approved by Convocation".〔Urban, Sylvanus, ''The Gentleman's Magazine'', Vol. XLIV (July to December 1855) (page 100 ) online at books.google.co.uk, accessed 14 August 2008〕 The Prize was first awarded in 1857. When Oscar Wilde won the Newdigate Prize in 1878, his prize poem, ''Ravenna'', was published by Thomas Shrimpton and Son of Oxford with two lists of names on the wrapper, one of the winners of the Newdigate Prize from 1840 to 1877, the other of the winners of the Gaisford Prize for Greek Prose from 1857 to 1876.〔Mason, Stuart, ''Bibliography of Oscar Wilde'', (Reprint by Read Books, 2007, of 1914 edition, ISBN 978-1-4067-5485-8) p. 241〕 There were originally two Gaisford Prizes, for Greek Verse and for Greek Prose. To these were added two more, for an Essay and for a Dissertation. However, under 'Part 21: Gaisford Fund', the current Schedule to the University's ''Statutes and Regulations'' provides for only two prizes: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaisford Prize」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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