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DING 2014: “Born in Derbyshire, he never attended university as a young man but managed to get a solid background in several Indo-European languages and especially in Anglo-Saxon. In later years, from 1822, he gained an M.A. from the University of Aberdeen, a Ph.D. from the University of Leyden, a B. D. from Trinity College and an LL. D. also from the University of Aberdeen. He became Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford in 1858. EDD includes his Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language in its bibliographic section of “Works of General Reference” but only the “Dialogue in the Derbyshire Dialect contained in the Preface section “Dialects from A.D. 900."

WORKS

“Dialects from A.D. 900”. A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language. 1838. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman: xxvi-xxxv. SC.EDD.

NOT IN KINGKONG PROJECT

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Bradley, Henry. 2008. "Bosworth, Joseph (1787/8–1876)", rev. John D. Haigh. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2955, accessed 9 April 2015]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bosworth

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bosworth,_Joseph_%28DNB00%29

http://www.waterstratford.org.uk/joseph-bosworth

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Joseph Bosworth

(1788-1876)