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Robert Scott (philologist)

Overview

Robert Scott (26 January 1811 – 2 December 1887) was a British academic philologist and Anglican clergyman. He is best known for co-authoring the Greek-English Lexicon, commonly known as Liddell and Scott, which is still in use today. Scott was also a professor of Greek at the University of Oxford for over thirty years before his death on 2 December 1887.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Greek language
• Bachelor of Arts
• Philology
• Lewis Carroll
• University of Oxford
• Oxford University Press
• A Greek–English Lexicon
• Henry Liddell

Place in the tradition

Part of Monotheism.

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