Joseph Bosworth

Philologist, born in Derbyshire, C England, UK. Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from 1858, he compiled An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1838), and in 1867 gave £10 000 to endow a chair of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge.

Joseph Bosworth (1789 - May 27, 1876), English scholar of Anglo-Saxon language and Anglo-Saxon literature, was born in Derbyshire.

Educated at Repton, whence he proceeded to the University of Aberdeen, he became in 1817 vicar of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, and devoted his spare time to literature and particularly to the study of Anglo-Saxon. He remained in Holland until 1840, working there on his Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838), his best-known work.

In 1857 he became rector of Water Stratford, Buckinghamshire, and in the following year was appointed Rawlinson professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. He gave to the University of Cambridge in 1867 £10,000 for the establishment of a professorship of Anglo-Saxon.