George Stephens
George Stephens (13 December 1813 – 9 August 1895) was an English archeologist and philologist, who worked in Scandinavia, especially on interpreting runic inscriptions .[ 1]
Born at Liverpool , Stephens studied at University College London . In 1834, he married Mary Bennett and moved to Sweden, studying Scandinavian medieval literature and folklore. His collection of fairy tales together with Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius was often reprinted. Stephens moved to Denmark, became a lecturer in English at Copenhagen University in 1851, and a professor in 1855. He published regularly in The Gentleman's Magazine . In 1860, he published the first edition of the Waldere fragments. In 1877, Uppsala University made him doctor honoris causa .[ 2]
His brother was the Methodist minister Joseph Rayner Stephens .[ 3] He died at Copenhagen in 1895.[ 2] He was the grandfather of Florence Stephens .
Bibliography
Conversational outlines of English grammar: intended as an easy introduction to that language... (1837)
Förteckning öfver de förnämsta brittiska och fransyska handskrifterna uti Kongl. bibliotheket i Stockholm (1847)
Revenge, or Woman's Love: a melodrama in five acts (1857) (Eric the Victorious is one of the protagonists)
The rescue of Robert Burns, February 1759 (1859)
Two Leaves of King Waldere's Lay (1860)
The Old-Northern runic monuments of Scandinavia and England , 4 volumes (1866–1901)
Old Norse fairy tales (1882)
The runes: whence came they (1894)
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