Henry Sweet
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Within Vinony's link graph, Henry Sweet is referenced by 80 other articles, and connects out to phonetics, London and German.
Vinony files it under 1845 births, 1912 deaths and Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford.
Its subject is documented across 20 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1845
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse
- AN ANGLO-SAXON READER
- An Anglo-Saxon reader in prose and verse, with grammar, metre, notes and glossary
- Anglo-Saxon primer
- First Middle English Primer
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1968
- Active to
- 1982
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Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 48
- Total plays
- 138
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- philology
- Image
- Sweet Henry.jpg
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- date of death
- 1912-04-30
- date of birth
- 1845-09-15
- cause of death
- pernicious anemia
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Henry Sweet
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Henry Sweet
- Commons Creator page
- Henry Sweet
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (1)
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Categories
1845 births1912 deathsAlumni of Balliol College, OxfordAnglo-Saxon studies scholarsCreators of shorthand systemsDeaths from pernicious anemiaEnglish-language spelling reform advocatesEnglish philologistsHistorical linguistsLinguists of EnglishLinguists of Germanic languagesLinguists of Indo-Uralic languagesMembers of the Royal Society of Sciences in UppsalaPeople educated at Bruce Castle SchoolPeople educated at King's College School, LondonPhoneticiansPresidents of the Philological Society