List of Professorships at The University of Edinburgh

Established professorships at the University of Edinburgh

The title of the professorship is followed by the date of foundation. Dates in italics indicate the year of foundation of lectureships on which chairs were based.

• Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations (1707)
• Chair in Civil Law (1710)
• Chair in Universal History and Greek and Roman Antiquities (1719) (from 1909, 'Constitutional History', and from 1945, 'Constitutional Law and History')
• Chair in Scots Law (1722)
• Chair in Sanskrit
• Chair in clinical surgery
• Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English literature (1762 - as the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres - it established the first English Literature department in the UK)
• Chair in Forensic Medicine
• Chair in Military Surgery (1806, abolished 1856)
• Chair in Botany
• Chair in Astronomy
• Chair in Engineering
• Chair in Geology
• Chair in Astrobiology
• Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography (1901)
• Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art (named for John Watson Gordon)
• Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography (1931)
• Masson Professor of English Literature (named for David Masson)
• Salvesen Chair in European Institutions (1968)
• Lord President Reid Chair in Law (1972)
• Grierson Professor of English Literature (1950 - formerly the Knight Professor of English Literature, named for Herbert Grierson)