Frederick James Furnivall
British lexicographer
Died when: 85 years 148 days (1024 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
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.
Related People
British lexicographer
British lexicographer
British lexicographer
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License