Robert Scott | |
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| Born | (1811-01-26)26 January 1811 |
| Died | 2 December 1887(1887-12-02) (aged 76) |
| Occupation | Philologist |
| Notable work | A Greek-English Lexicon |
Robert Scott (26 January 1811 – 2 December 1887) was a British academicphilologist andChurch of England priest. He is best known for co-authoring theGreek-English Lexicon, commonly known as Liddell and Scott, which is still in use today. Scott was also a professor of Greek at theUniversity of Oxford for over thirty years before his death on 2 December 1887.
Scott was born on 26 January 1811 inBondleigh, Devon, England. He was educated atSt Bees School in Cumbria, andShrewsbury School in Shropshire. He studied classics atChrist Church, Oxford, graduating with aBachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1833.
Scott was ordained in 1835 and held the college living ofDuloe, Cornwall, from 1845 to 1850. He was aprebendary ofExeter Cathedral from 1845 to 1866 and rector ofSouth Luffenham, Rutland, from 1850 to 1854 when he was electedMaster ofBalliol College, Oxford. He served asDean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford from 1861 to 1870 and as theDean of Rochester from 1870 until his death in 1887.
Scott is best known as the co-editor (with his colleagueHenry Liddell) ofA Greek-English Lexicon, the standarddictionary of the classicalGreek language. According to the 1925 edition of theLexicon, the project was originally proposed to Scott by the London bookseller and publisherDavid Alphonso Talboys; it was published by theOxford University Press.
In 1872, Scott was taken withLewis 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.
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