William Beloe (writer)

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William Beloe (* 1756 in Norwich ; † April 11, 1817 ) was a British author, translator and editor.

The son of a respected businessman graduated from Bennett's College in Cambridge in 1779 with a bachelor's degree. He became curate of Earlham but moved to London after his marriage. From 1793, as a reaction to the outbreak of the French Revolution, he and Robert Nares published the Christian-conservative British Critic , to which he also contributed articles. The quarterly publication was supported by, among others, William Pitt , British Prime Minister, John Moore , Archbishop of Canterbury and Beilby Porteus , Bishop of London .

In 1804 Beloe became a library assistant ( keeper of printed books ) at the British Museum . However, as books were stolen from the inventory several times, he lost the job again. In 1818 his two-volume autobiography The Sexagenarian was published posthumously . In addition, Beloe emerged as a poet writer, translator of Latin, Greek and French authors and lexicographer.

Fonts

  • Ode to Miss Boscawen , 1783
  • The Rape of Helen , from Greek with Notes, 1786
  • Poems and Translations , 8 volumes, 1788
  • The History of Herodotus , from the Greek, with Notes, four volumes, 1790
  • Translation of Alciphron 's Epistles , 1791
  • Translation of the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius , 1795
  • Miscellanies, viz. Poems, Classical Extracts, and Oriental Apologues , three volumes, 1795
  • Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments , from the French, 4 volumes
  • Joseph , translated from the French of Bitaubé , 2 volumes
  • Anecdotes of Literature an Scarce Books , 6 volumes, 1806-12
  • The British Critic (Ed.)
  • Biographical Dictionary (with William Tooke and Robert Nares), 18 volumes, 1798
  • Brief Memoirs of the leaders of the French Revolution
  • The Sexagenarian. or the Memoirs of a Literary Life , 2 volumes, 1818

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personal data
SURNAME Beloe, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author, translator and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwich
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1817