John Josias Conybeare

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John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824), elder brother of William Daniel Conybeare, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.

He was an accomplished scholar, studied at Christchurch College, Oxford; became vicar of Batheaston; and was Professor of Anglo-Saxon (1808–1812), and afterwards Professor of Poetry (1812–1821), at Oxford.

Works

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) as An attempt to trace the History and ascertain the Limits of the Secondary and Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture.

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.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 349386 LCCN: n88222318 ISNI: 0000 0000 6311 5252 GND: 100090338

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Name	Conybeare, John Josias
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Short description	British schoalr
Date of birth	1779
Place of birth
Date of death	1824
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