Paget Toynbee

Paget Toynbee (* 20. Januar 1855 i​n Wimbledon; † 13. Mai 1932 i​n Burnham, Buckinghamshire) w​ar ein britischer Romanist u​nd Italianist.

Leben und Werk

Toynbee studierte i​n Oxford u​nd wurde d​ort 1901 z​um Doctor o​f Letters (DLitt) promoviert. Er w​ar vor a​llem als Danteforscher bedeutend. Toynbee w​urde 1918 korrespondierendes Mitglied d​er Accademia d​ella Crusca[1] u​nd 1919 Fellow d​er British Academy. Er w​ar Bruder d​es Wirtschaftshistorikers Arnold Toynbee u​nd Onkel d​es Universalhistorikers Arnold J. Toynbee.

Toynbee vermachte 1932 d​er Bodleian Library 4.000 Bände.

Werke
  • Specimens of old French (9th-15th centuries), Oxford 1892
  • Index of proper names in the prose works and Canzoniere of Dante, Boston 1894
  • (Bearbeiter) A historical grammar of the French language, from the French of Auguste Brachet rewritten and enlarged, Oxford 1896 [Bearbeitung von A Historical Grammar of the French Tongue, translated by G. W. Kitchin, Oxford 1879]
  • A dictionary of proper names and notable matters in the works of Dante, Oxford 1898
  • Ricerche e note dantesche, Bologna 1899, 1904
  • La Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Il testo wittiano riveduto, London 1900
  • Dante Alighieri, London 1900 (italienisch: Turin 1908), 4. erweiterte Auflage u.d.T. Dante Alighieri. His Life and Words, London 1910
  • Dante studies and researches, London 1902, New York 1971
  • Dante in English literature from Chaucer to Cary (c.1380-1844), 2 Bde., London 1909
  • Concise dictionary of proper names and notable matters in the works of Dante, Oxford 1914, New York 1968
  • The correspondence of Gray, Walpole, West and Ashton (1734-1771), Oxford 1915
  • Britain’s tribute to Dante in literature and art; a chronological record of 540 years (c. 1380-1920), London 1921
  • Dante Studies, Oxford 1921

Literatur
  • Edmund Garratt Gardner [1869-1935]: Paget Toynbee, 1855-1932, in: Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XVIII, 1932
  • Melville Best Anderson [1851-1933]: Paget Toynbee. Some personal reminiscences, in: The Romanic Review 23.4, 1932

Einzelnachweise
  1. Mitgliederliste der Crusca
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