Joshua Barnes
Joshua Barnes (10 January 1654 – 3 August 1712), was an English scholar.
He was born in London, the son of Edward Barnes, a merchant taylor.
Educated at Christ's Hospital and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was in 1695 chosen Regius Professor of Greek, a language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility.
One of his first publications was entitled Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675), a whimsical sketch to which Swift's Voyage to Lilliput possibly owes something. Among his other works are a History of that Most Victorious Monarch Edward III (1688), an epic work numbering 900+ pages, in which he introduces long and elaborate speeches into the narrative; editions of Euripides (1694) and of Homer (1711), also one of Anacreon (1705) which contains titles of Greek verses of his own which he hoped to publish. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November, 1710.[1]
He died on 3 August 1712, at Hemingford, near St Ives, Huntingdonshire. He had married Mrs Mason, a widow, of Hemingford
[edit] References
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Barnes, Joshua". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
[edit] External links
- Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Barnes, Joshua". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
