Maurice Platnauer

Maurice Platnauer (18 June 1887; 19 December 1974)[1] was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1956[2] to 1960.[3]

Platnauer was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. A classicist, he was a master at Winchester College from 1910 to 1915; and from 1919 to 1922: during [[World War One he was an officer with the Royal Garrison Artillery.[4] in 1922 he became a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He was Vice-Principal of Brasenose from 1936 to 1956; and Editor of the Classical Quarterly from 1936 to 1947; and an Honorary Fellow of New College from 1957. [5]

Notes
  1. 'Deaths' The Times Saturday, Dec. 21, 1974 Issue 59276 p.20
  2. 'New Principal Of Brasenose' The Times Friday, Aug. 3, 1956 Issue 53600 p.10
  3. Brazen News Issue 7, Michelmas Term 2013
  4. London Gazette 26 August 1915
  5. "Platnauer, Maurice". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 19 May 2020. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
Academic offices
Preceded by
Hugh Last		 Principals of Brasenose College, Oxford
1956–1960		 Succeeded by
Noel Frederick Hall
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