William Craigie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

William Craigie

Scottish philologist and lexicographer

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1867

Place of Birth: Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-Sep-1957

Profession: university teacher, linguist, lexicographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About William Craigie

  • Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a philologist and a lexicographer. A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he was the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-editor (with C.
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  • Onions) of the 1933 supplement.
  • From 1916 to 1925 he was also Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford.
  • Among the students he tutored was the one who would succeed him in the Anglo-Saxon chair, JRR Tolkien.
  • He married Jessie Kinmond Hutchen of Dundee, born 1864 or 65, died 1947, daughter of William.In 1925, Cragie accepted a professorship in English literature from the University of Chicago, with plans to edit a new American English dictionary, based on the Oxford model.
  • He also lectured on lexicography at Chicago, while working on the Dictionary of American English and the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, a project he pioneered.
  • Many twentieth-century American lexicographers studied under Craigie as a part of his lectureship, including Clarence Barnhart, Jess Stein, Woodford A.
  • Heflin, Robert Ramsey, Louise Pound, and Allen Walker Read.
  • Cragie retired to Watlington, England in 1936.Craigie was also fluent in Icelandic and an expert in the field of rĂ­mur (rhyming epic poems).
  • He made many valuable contributions in that field.
  • His interest was awakened by a winter of study in Copenhagen, then the centre of Norse philology.
  • He compiled the complete Oxford edition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, with previously untranslated tales being supplied by his wife.
  • He befriended many of the great Norse philologists of the time and came across sĂ©ra Einar GuĂ°mundsson's seventeenth-century Skotlands rĂ­mur, dealing with the Gowrie Conspiracy.
  • He continued research in that field till the end of his life.

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