The Regius Chair of Humanity is a Regius Chair at the University of Aberdeen. The position was originally a professorship in Latin, like equivalent positions at Glasgow and Edinburgh, and existed in parallel with the Regius Chair of Greek. These two professorial chairs had their origins in the pre-existing Chairs of Greek and Humanity that existed at King's College and Marischal College, which were unified into the University of Aberdeen in 1860.

In 1979, the Regius Chair of Humanity was renamed the Regius Chair of Classics and the Regius Chair of Greek was abolished and merged into this position, formalising what may already have been an existing situation, as no Regius Professor of Greek had recently held office. However, the teaching of Classics at the university was then abolished in 1989.

In 2006, the name of the Regius Chair of Classics was restored to Regius Chair of Humanity. Since then, the position has been held by scholars within the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History, whose specialist interests have included Greek and Latin texts.

List of Professors at King's College, Aberdeen Professors of Greek (before 1860) 1754–1790: James Leslie 1790–1796: Gilbert Gerard 1797–1854: Hugh Macpherson 1854–1855: P. Campbell 1855–1860: William Duguid Geddes

Professors of Humanity (before 1860) 1669–1695: Patrick Gordon 1695–1739: A. Gordon 1739–1765: Thomas Gordon 1765–1817: William Ogilvie 1817–1847: Patrick Forbes 1847–1860: George Ferguson

List of Professors at Marischal College, Aberdeen Professors of Greek (before 1860) 1723: Thomas Haddow 1723–1757: Thomas Blackwell 1758–1782: William Kennedy 1782–1827: John Stuart 1827–1860: Robert James Brown

Professors of Humanity (before 1860) 1839–1851: John Stuart Blackie 1852–1860: Robert MacLure

List of Professors at the unified University of Aberdeen Regius Professors of Greek (1860–1979) 1860–1885: William Duguid Geddes (formerly Professor of Greek at King's College) 1886–1931: John Harrower 1931–1964?: 1964?–1979: Chair vacant

Regius Professors of Humanity (1860–1979) 1860–1868: Robert MacLure (formerly Professor of Humanity at Marischal College) 1868–1881: John Black 1881–1886: James Donaldson 1886–1911: William Mitchell Ramsay 1911–1937: Alexander Souter 1938–1952: Peter Noble 1952–1979: William Smith Watt

Regius Professors of Classics (1979–2006) 1980–1983: John M. Rist 1983–2006: Chair vacant

Regius Professors of Humanity (since 2006) 2007–2017: Jane Stevenson 2020–present: John Behr

See also Professor of Humanity (Glasgow) MacDowell Professor of Greek Professor of Classics (Edinburgh) List of professorships at the University of Aberdeen

Notes For all professors up to 1900, these lists are based on

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