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Richard Bentley.
English classical scholar, critic and theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1662–1742)
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About Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, Anglican cleric, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley "the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred".
Everything about Richard Bentley →- Occupation
- librarian, classical philologist, literary critic, theologian
- Position held
- Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, rector, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- January 27, 1662, 1662
- Died
- July 14, 1742, 1742