Robert Welsted
Robert Welsted (1671–1735) was an English physician and classical scholar.
Life
He was the son of Leonard Welsted of Bristol. He matriculated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 4 December 1687, and was elected in 1689 to a demyship at Magdalen College, which he held till 1698, graduating B.A. on 25 June 1691, and M.A. on 12 May 1694. He was admitted an extra-licentiate of the London College of Physicians on 11 December 1695. He was then practising medicine at Bristol, where he remained for some years; when he later moved to London, he was admitted a licentiate on 3 September 1710.[3]
Welsted was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society on 20 March 1718. In his later years his London practice dropped away, and he relied on charity from his friend Hugh Boulter.[4] He died at Tavistock Street, London, on 1 February 1735.[3]
Works
Welsted was the author of:[3]
- De Ætate vergente Liber, London, 1724.
- De adulta Ætate Liber, London, 1725.
- De Medicina Mentis Liber, London, 1726.
- Tentamen de variis Hominum Naturis, London, 1730.
- Tentamen alterum de propriis Naturarum Habitibus, London, 1732.
He also translated The Works of Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime ... with some Remarks on the English Poets, London, 1712; and with Richard West edited Pindar (Oxford, 1692).[3]
Notes
- ^ William Congreve (March 2004). The Complete Works of William Congreve Part One. Kessinger Publishing. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-7661-8738-2. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- ^ Maximilian Samson Friedrich Schoell (1828). Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur, nach der 2en Aufl. aus dem Fr. übers von J.F.J. Schwarze. (M. Pinder) (in German). p. 202. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- ^ a b c d Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Wallis, Patrick. "Welsted, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29030. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Welsted, Robert". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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