William J. Entwistle

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William J. Entwistle (born December 7, 1895 in Zhengyangguan, Anhui Province, China, † June 13, 1952 in Oxford ) was a British Romanist , Hispanist, Lusitanist, Slavist and linguist .

life and work

William James Entwistle grew up as the son of a Methodist missionary in China and went to school in Tschifu (now Zhifu / Yantai) until 1910. From 1911 he studied in Aberdeen. He survived the World War as a war wounded, went to Madrid for two years and taught Spanish in Manchester from 1921. From 1925 to 1932 he was professor of Spanish in Glasgow and from 1932 until his sudden death as successor to Salvador de Madariaga he held the King Alfonso XIII Chair of Hispanic Studies at Oxford. During this time he was a Fellow of Exeter College. In 1950 he was elected a member of the British Academy .

Works

  • The Arthurian Legend in the Literatures of the Spanish Peninsula, London 1925 (Portuguese: 1942)
  • Fray Luis de León's life in his lyrics. A new interpretation, in: Revue hispanique 71, 1927, 176-224
  • (Ed. Together with Jeanie D. Entwistle) Los cuatro viajes de Cristóbal Colón (selections from Columbus' letters and other primary documents), edited with notes and vocabulary, London 1928
  • The scope of Spanish studies. An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on November 3, 1932, Oxford 1932
  • The Spanish Language, together with Portuguese, Catalan and Basque, London 1936, 2nd edition edited by William Denis Elcock and Leonard Robert Palmer, London 1962 (partial translation Spanish 1954, all Spanish: Madrid 1969, 1973, 1980)
  • European Balladry, Oxford 1939, 1951, 1957
  • Cervantes, Oxford 1940, 1969
  • (with Eric Gillett) The Literature of England 500 AD to 1942. A survey of British literature from the beginnings to the present day, London 1943, 4th edition 1962
  • (together with Walter Angus Morrison) Russian and Slavonic Languages, London 1949, 1965
  • Aspects of Language, London 1953
  • Cronica del Rei Dom Johan I de boa memoria e doz Reis de Portugal o decimo. Parte segunda escrita per Fernão Lopes e agora copiada pielmente por WJ Entwistle, Lisbon 1968, 1977 (Vol. 1, 1973, with foreword by Luis Filipe Lindley Cintra)

literature

  • Alfred Ewert: William James Entwistle: 1895-1952, in: Proceedings of the British Academy 38, 1954, pp. 333-343
  • Marcel Bataillon in: Bulletin Hispanique 54, 1952, pp. 452–453
  • Rebecca Posner: Romance Linguistics in Oxford 1840-1940, in: Lingua et Traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday, ed. by Richard Baum, Klaus Böckle, Franz Josef Hausmann and Franz Lebsanft, Tübingen 1994, pp. 375–383

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Entwistle, William J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romanist, Hispanist, Lusitanist, Slavist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Zhengyangguan, Anhui Province, China
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1952
Place of death Oxford