John Mitchell Kemble
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John Mitchell Kemble (born April 2, 1807 in London , † March 26, 1857 in Dublin ) was an English linguist and historian.
Kemble, brother of Frances Anne Kemble and son of the actor Charles Kemble , studied in Cambridge, continued his language studies under Jakob Grimm in Göttingen from 1829 and performed his classical edition of the Anglo-saxon poem of Beowulf (London 1833. with the Engl. Translation 1837) as a writer.
In 1834 he gave the first lectures on Anglo-Saxon literature at Cambridge University , which were printed in his First history of the English language (Cambridge 1834). In 1836 he married the daughter of the Göttingen professor Johann Amadeus Wendt .
From 1845 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1853 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
Other works
- About the family tables of the West Saxons (Munich 1836),
- Codex diplomaticus aevi Saxonici (London 1845-48, 6 vols.), Which appeared at the expense of the English historical Society ol Science, which he co-founded, and
- State papers and correspondence illustrative of the social and political state of Europe (das. 1857).
Of the 4-volume History of the Saxons in England , only 2 volumes appeared in 1848 (new edition 1876; German by Heinrich Bernhard Christian Brandes , Leipz. 1853). Kemble was a longtime editor of the British and foreign Review . He died in Dublin on March 26, 1857.
His unfinished work Horae Ferales, or Studies in the Archeology of Northern Nations was completed and published by Robert Gordon Latham (London 1864).
Web links
- Literature by John Mitchell Kemble in the catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Literature by John Mitchell Kemble in the catalog of the SWB, Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 130.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kemble, John Mitchell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English language and history researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1857 |
| Place of death | Dublin |