Henry Stewart Macran
Henry Stewart Macran was an Irish philosopher and internationally recognized scholar of Hegel's philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.
Life and works
Macran was an undergraduate during 1882–1886, he became a fellow in 1892 and subsequently professor of moral philosophy and history of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He was also Trinity College's senior dean from 1931 to 1935 and from 1936 to 1937. In 1941 a Henry Stewart Macran Prize was named in his memory, for graduate students who write the best examination on Hegel's system of philosophy and an essay ‘on a subject of a metaphysical or ethical and not merely psychological or logical character’.Macran provided the first translation of Aristoxenus's Elementa harmonica into English.