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Уильям Крейги[англ.] - шотландский филолог, лексиколог, один из составителей "Оксфордского словаря английского языка"
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Craigie was close in age to Duncan and both came from Dundee.7 In due course Craigie became one of the leading academics of his generation. He was joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and founder of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue. Holder of the chair of Anglo- Saxon at Oxford, he also made a key contribution to lexicography at the University of Chicago. The linguistic background of his family included both Scots and Gaelic.8 He was a classical scholar and a noted translator of Icelandic work. He had a keen interest in both Norse and Celtic mythology, contributing to Andrew Lang’s series of books of fairy tales from 1894 onwards. He assisted Lang in his edition of the works of Robert Burns, and wrote his own Primer of Burns.9 Thus, even before John Duncan had met Patrick Geddes, he had in William Craigie a friend who epitomised the wide-ranging academic thinking that he would find in Geddes.[1]
7. A letter from Duncan to Craigie of 1885 indicates that by this date they
had been friends for some years. NLS MS 9987 f.11.
8. An indication of Craigie’s continuing interest in Gaelic is that he was a
subscriber to Edward Dwelly’s Gaelic–English dictionary, which was first
issued in parts between 1902 and 1912.
9. Craigie, William A., A Primer of Burns (London: Methuen, 1896). For an
indication of Craigie’s wider achievement, see A Memoir and a List of the
Published Writings of Sir William A. Craigie (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1952). From the perspective of Craigie’s interest in myth and legend, one
can note that a subscriber to this publication was Craigie’s assistant at
Oxford, J. R. R. Tolkien, who followed him as Rawlinson and Bosworth
Professor of Anglo-Saxon.
10. NLS MS 9987, f. 32, letter of 25 April 1893.
Macdonald, Murdo. Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins. — Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 240 с. — ISBN 978-1474454070.
- Macdonald (2020) harvtxt error: якоря не существует: CITEREFMacdonald2020 (помощь), p. 61.
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