• Source: Oswald Cockayne

Thomas Oswald Cockayne (1807–1873) was a churchman and philologist, best known today for his monumental edition of Old English medical texts.




Life


Cockayne took a degree at St. John's College, Cambridge, graduating in mathematics in 1828 as tenth wrangler. He later took holy orders, alongside working for many years an assistant-master in King's College School, London (until 1869). He was a member of the Philological and the Early English Text Societies.




Works


Cockayne's principal works were:

A Civil History of the Jews, from Joshua to Hadrian (1841)
A Greek Syntax (1846)
Outlines of the History of France (1846)
Outlines of the History of Ireland (1851)
Life of Marshal Turenne (1853)
Leechdoms Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part Never Before Printed Illustrating the History of Science in this Country Before the Norman Conquest, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores (Rolls Series), 35, 3 vols (London: Longman and others, 1864–6): vol. I, vol. II, vol. III.
Spoon and Sparrow, or English roots in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew (London: Parker, son, and Bourn, 1861)
The Shrine, a collection of papers on dry subjects (1864)




References






External links


Kenneally, Daniel F. "Cockayne, Thomas Oswald". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5762. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Ermenilda dari Ely
• Oswald Cockayne
• Bald's Leechbook
• Lacnunga
• Cockayne (surname)
• Anglo-Saxon runic rings
• Juliana of Nicomedia
• Magic in Anglo-Saxon England
• List of English translations from medieval sources: A
• Boston Photogravure Company
• Ermenilda of Ely