Paget Toynbee

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Paget Toynbee (born January 20, 1855 in Wimbledon , † May 13, 1932 in Burnham , Buckinghamshire ) was a British Romanist and Italianist.

life and work

Toynbee studied at Oxford, where he received his doctorate in 1901 as a Doctor of Letters (DLitt). He was especially important as a Dante researcher . Toynbee became a corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca in 1918 and a fellow of the British Academy in 1919 . He was the brother of the economic historian Arnold Toynbee and the uncle of the universal historian Arnold J. Toynbee .

Toynbee bequeathed 4,000 volumes to the Bodleian Library in 1932 .

Works

  • Specimens of old French (9th-15th centuries), Oxford 1892
  • Index of proper names in the prose works and Canzoniere of Dante, Boston 1894
  • (Editor) A historical grammar of the French language, from the French of Auguste Brachet rewritten and enlarged, Oxford 1896 [Adaptation of A Historical Grammar of the French Tongue, translated by GW Kitchin, Oxford 1879]
  • A dictionary of proper names and notable matters in the works of Dante, Oxford 1898
  • Ricerche e note dantesche, Bologna 1899, 1904
  • La Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Il testo wittiano riveduto, London 1900
  • Dante Alighieri, London 1900 (Italian: Turin 1908), 4th expanded edition by Dante Alighieri. His Life and Words, London 1910
  • Dante studies and researches, London 1902, New York 1971
  • Dante in English literature from Chaucer to Cary (c.1380-1844), 2 vols., London 1909
  • Concise dictionary of proper names and notable matters in the works of Dante, Oxford 1914, New York 1968
  • The correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), Oxford 1915
  • Britain's tribute to Dante in literature and art; a chronological record of 540 years (c. 1380-1920), London 1921
  • Dante Studies, Oxford 1921

literature

  • Edmund Garratt Gardner [1869-1935]: Paget Toynbee, 1855-1932, in: Proceedings of the British Academy , Vol. XVIII, 1932
  • Melville Best Anderson [1851-1933]: Paget Toynbee. Some personal reminiscences, in: The Romanic Review 23.4, 1932

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership list of the Crusca

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Toynbee, Paget
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toynbee, Paget Jackson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romanist and Italianist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Wimbledon
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1932
Place of death Burnham , Buckinghamshire