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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.
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.
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Name: | Joseph Bosworth |
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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/ |