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Name
  
Benjamin Thorpe


Died
  
July 1870, Chiswick, United Kingdom

Books
  
Northern Mythology, Northern Mythology - Comprisi, The Elder Eddas of Saemund, Tha Halgan Godspel, Traditions and Legends

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Education
  
University of Copenhagen

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Benjamin Thorpe (1782 – 19 July 1870) was an English scholar of Anglo-Saxon.

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Biography

In the early 1820s he worked as a banker in the House of Rothschild, in Paris. There he met Thomas Hodgkin, who treated him for tuberculosis.

After studying for four years at Copenhagen University, under the Danish philologist Rasmus Christian Rask, Thorpe returned to England in 1830. In a few years he established a reputation as an Anglo-Saxon scholar.

In recognition of unremunerative work, Thorpe was granted a civil list pension of £160 in 1835, and on 17 June 1841 this was increased to £200 per annum. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich, and of the Society of Netherlandish Literature at Leyden He died at Chiswick in July 1870.

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Benjamin Thorpe Wikipedia


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