Andrew Dalby

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Andrew Dalby

Andrew Dalby (born June 13, 1947 in Liverpool ) is a British author, cultural historian and linguist . His publication topics include comparative linguistics , eating and drinking culture, and Greek epic poetry.

Life

Andrew Dalby studied Classical Philology , Romance and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge , where he in 1970 the Bachelor reached -degree. For the next 15 years he worked at Cambridge University Library , specializing in South and Southeast Asian languages. From 1982 to 1983, together with Sao Saimong, he cataloged the Scott collection of manuscripts and documents from back India , especially from Burma . To this end, Dalby learned Sanskrit , Pali and Hindi .

From 1985 Dalby worked in London, where he expanded the libraries of Regent's College and Goodenough College . From 1987 to 1993 he completed a doctoral degree at Birkbeck College , in which he deepened his knowledge of Latin and Greek in particular. He works as a freelance writer. He is also one of 17 (as of March 2017) administrators of the Latin Wikipedia .

Honors

Andrew Dalby received the Runciman Award from the Anglo-Hellenic League in 1997 for his work Siren Feasts .

Fonts (selection)

  • South East Asia: A guide to reference material , London / Melbourne / Munich / New York 1993.
  • Siren Feasts , London 1995.
    • Eating and drinking in ancient Greece , translated by Kai Brodersen , Stuttgart 1998.
  • with Sally Grainger: The Classical Cookbook , 1996.
    • Kitchen secrets of antiquity , translated by Roland Vocke, Würzburg 1996. Special edition Würzburg 1998.
  • A guide to world language dictionaries , London 1998.
  • Dangerous Tastes , 2001.
  • Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future , 2002
  • Bacchus: A Biography , Los Angeles 2004.
    • Bacchus: From the life of a god , translated by Sebastian Wohlfeil, Berlin 2005.
  • Venus: A Biography , Los Angeles 2005.
    • Venus: From the life of a goddess , translated by Sebastian Wohlfeil, Berlin 2006.
  • Rediscovering Homer , 2006.
  • The World and Wikipedia , 2009.
  • Cheese: a global history , 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Anglo-Hellenic League. Retrieved on August 11, 2012. ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anglohellenicleague.org

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personal data
SURNAME Dalby, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author, cultural historian and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool