# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-bentley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:30:41.621Z

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name: "Richard Bentley"
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description: "Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, 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\"."
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birthDate: "1662-01-27"
deathDate: "1742-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump