John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon.
Life[]
Conybeare was the grandson of John Conybeare, bishop of Bristol; the son of William Conybeare, rector of Bishopsgate; and the elder brother of geologist William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandalf.
He was an accomplished scholar, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford. He became vicar of Batheaston, and was Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon (1808–1812), and afterwards Professor of Poetry (1812–1821), at the University of Oxford.
Writing[]
He published a translation of Beowulf in English and Latin verse (1814), but is particularly noted for his posthumously published 1826 Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry.[1]
Like his brother, he was a student of geology and communicated papers to the Annals of Philosophy and the Transactions of the Geological Society of London (Obituary in Ann. Phil. vol. viii., Sept. 1824, p. 162.)
He gave the Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1824. These were published posthumously (also in 1824).
Publications[]
Non-fiction[]
- An examination of certain arguments adduced in support of the hypothesis, "that the received text of the Greek testament is a translation from the Latin" : addressed to the author of Palæo-Romaica. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press for J. Parker, 1823.
- An attempt to trace the History and ascertain the Limits of the Secondary and Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (Bampton Lecture) for J. Parker, 1824.
- Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (edited by William Daniel Conybeare). London: Harding & Lepard, 1826.
Translated[]
- The Romance of Octavian, Emperor of Rome. Oxford, UK: Collingwood, 1809;
- (edited by Edmund Marsden Goldsmid). Edinburgh: Aungervyle Society, 1882.
Edited[]
- Communication of an inedited fragment of Anglo-Saxon poetry, in a letter. London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1814.
- Two English Poems of the Time of Richard II. London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1815.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]
See also[]
| Preceded by Edward Copleston |
Oxford Professor of Poetry 1812-1821 |
Succeeded by Henry Hart Milman |
References[]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ ed. by William Daniel Conybeare (London: Harding and Lepard). http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Illustrations_of_Anglo_Saxon_Poetry.html?id=vYwlAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y.
- ↑ Search results = au:John Josias Conybeare 1824, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 2, 2016.
External links[]
- Poems
- Beowulf (excerpts); translations by John Josias Conybeare (1826)
- Prose
- Template:Wikisource author-inline
- John Josias Conybeare on Beowulf
- About
- The Conybeare-Madden Collation of Thorkelin’s Beowulf
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain, the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Original article is at "Coneybeare, William Daniel (1787-1857)"
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