Frederick James Furnivall
Frederick James Furnivall FBA (4 February 1825 – 2 July 1910) was an English philologist, best known as one of the co-creators of the New English Dictionary. He founded a number of learned societies on early English literature and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, of which the most notable was his parallel text edition of The Canterbury Tales. He was one of the founders of and teachers at the London Working Men's College and a lifelong campaigner against injustice.
Quotes
[edit]- I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English people in the past.
- Statement, near the end of his life, to Roman Dyboski. Reported in Frederick James Furnivall: A Volume of Personal Record (1911) p. 43
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Frederick James Furnivall on Wikipedia
