Robert Scott (philologist)
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Born | A Greek-English Lexicon | 26 January 1811
Robert Scott (26 January 1811 – 2 December 1887) was a British academic
Biography
Scott was born on 26 January 1811 in Bondleigh, Devon, England. He was educated at St Bees School in Cumbria, and Shrewsbury School in Shropshire. He studied classics at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1833.
Scott was ordained in 1835 and held the college living of
Scott is best known as the co-editor (with his colleague
In 1872, Scott was taken with Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" poem published the year before, and he wrote the first known German translation of the piece. He engaged Carroll in an exchange of letters wherein he jocularly claimed his German version, called "Der Jammerwoch", was the original, with Carroll's being the translation.
External links
- Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- Lexicon text at Perseus project – includes basic biographical information about Scott from the 1925 edition of the Lexicon
- Biographical index to Benjamin Jowett papers – brief biography of Scott
- Balliol College Portraits Collection – includes a portrait of Scott
- Works by or about Robert Scott at Internet Archive
- [1] – elucidates Scott's 2/1872 "Jammerwoch" translation
- [2] – details Scott's epistolary exchange with Charles Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, and links to the "Jammerwoch" translation