Frederick John Norton
Frederick John Norton ( 1904 - February 28, 1986 ) was a British librarian, Romanist and Hispanist .
Life
Norton studied in Cambridge and in Spain. He was a librarian at Cambridge University Library from 1930 to 1972 . In 1966 he became a Fellow of University College (Cambridge), and in 1970 Reader in Bibliography.
Norten was a bearer of the order of Alfonso X the Wise (Grand Cross).
Works
- (with Lewis Charles Harmer ) Manual of Modern Spanish, London 1935
- Italian Printers 1501-1520. An annotated list, London 1958
- Printing in Spain 1501–1520, Cambridge 1966, 1997, Ann Arbor 1999 (Spanish with Julián Martín Abad, Madrid 1997)
- (Ed. With Edward M. Wilson), Two Spanish verse chapbooks, Cambridge 1969
- A Descriptive Catalog of printing in Spain and Portugal 1501-1520, Cambridge 1978, Mansfield 1999
- (Contributor) Katharine Mary Briggs, Dictionary of British Folk-tales in the English Language incorporating the FJ Norton Collection, 4 vols., 1970-1971
Web links
- Literature by and about Frederick John Norton in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Frederick John Norton in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blanchec/FJNORTONObit.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Norton, Frederick John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Norton, Frederick J .; Norton, FJ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British librarian, Romanist and Hispanicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1904 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1986 |