Joseph Bosworth
| Revd. Joseph Bosworth DD, FRS, FSA, FRSL | |||||||||
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| Born | 1788 | ||||||||
| Died | 1876 | ||||||||
| Residence | 20 Beaumont Square, Oxford; and Water Stratford, Buckingham | ||||||||
| Occupation |
church academic | ||||||||
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Trin. Coll., Cambridge, and of Christ Church, Oxford, Prof. Anglo-Saxon, Dr.Phil. of Leyden, F.R.S., F.S.A., F.R.S.L., Corresponding Member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, etc., etc.
1867.12.31 The Secretary was instructed to ask Dr Bosworth to remain a Local Secretary of the Society.
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Notes From Elsewhere
Joseph Bosworth (1788 – 27 May 1876) was an English scholar of the Anglo-Saxon language and compiler of the first major Anglo-Saxon dictionary.
There is no lack of information on the Rev. Joseph Bosworth (1788-1876). He has an entry in the ODNB. He is best known as an Anglo-Saxon scholar and for his Anglo-Saxon dictionary. He was the Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1858 until his death at 20 Beaumont Street on 27th May 1876. He was incorporated as a member of Christ Church. He joined the ASL in 1864 and resigned again in 1867. The fact that he joined the ASL soon after it was set up and not the ESL suggests an anti-Darwinian stance. He also became the ASL’s local secretary in 1864 and although we do not know whether he was a member of the Oxford Anthropological Society he almost certainly drafted the report on its activities which appeared in The Anthropological Review in 1867. This contains the only information on the OAS that I have found. [Peter Riviere]
Publications
External Publications
A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838),
