Frederick James Furnivall was an English philologist, best known as one of the co-creators of the New English Dictionary.
Photos 1
Awards 1
Writers born in the 1820s 6
About this person
Frederick James Furnivall was an English philologist, best known as one of the co-creators of the New English Dictionary. He founded a number of learned societies on early English literature and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, of which the most notable was his parallel text edition of The Canterbury Tales. He was one of the founders of and teachers at the London Working Men's College and a lifelong campaigner against injustice.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1825 to 1910 · aged 85
Written about in
7 languages
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.