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Description
Joseph Bosworth was a Buckinghamshire vicar who had an interest in European languages. His best known work was 'A Dictonary of the Anglo-Saxon Language' published in 1838. He became Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from 1858 until his death in 1876. The Professorship known since 1916 as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon was subsequently held by J. R. R. Tolkien between 1925-1945.
Metadata describing this person
Name: Joseph Bosworth
Title: Reverend
Name suffix: FRS
Gender: Male
Nationality: English
Date of birth: 1788
Date of death: 1876
Roles: Etymologist; Clergy
Project person ID: SLP008
Image rights: © National Portrait Gallery London by Unknown artist lithograph 1831 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/