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Kemble, John Mitchell

Kemble, John Mitchell (1807–57) [Bi].
British philologist and historian whose studies concentrated attention on Anglo-Saxon language and history. His publications included a major edition of the poem Beowulf (1833) and a significant paper in 1856 in which he drew attention to the similarities in material from England and from Hanover.[Bio.: R. A. Wiley, 1979, Anglo-Saxon Kemble: the life and works of John Mitchell Kemble, 1807–1857. Anglo-Saxon studies in archaeology and history (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports British Series 72), 165–273]

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