Robert Gordon Latham

Robert Gordon Latham, spr. läthäm, (* 1812 in Billing Borough, Lincolnshire, † 1888 ) was an English linguist and ethnologist.

Latham studied at King's College ( University of Cambridge ) medicine. Upon successful completion, he got a job as a junior doctor at Middlesexhospital. From 1823 he held for ten years on in Denmark and Sweden. After his return in 1833 he was appointed as Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London.

Latham was instrumental in the founding of the Philological Society in London. As 1852 in Sydenham (London Borough of Lewisham ) a ethnological department was established at the Crystal Palace, it went back to Latham's initiative.

1863 Latham laid down all his offices and retired into private life.

Reception

Latham's scientific reputation is less justified in his medical because in his linguistic skills. Especially his ethnological and linguistic studies have been praised by experts of his time high. For example, Latham went with his " Treatise on the English language" as one of the first one on the historical development of the English language.

Works (selection)

  • Norway and the Norwegians. London 1840 ( 2 vols )
  • Treatise on the English language. 5th edition 1862.
  • History and etymology of the English language. , 1849.
  • Handbook of the English language. 9th edition, 1875.
  • Natural history of the varieties of man. In 1850.
  • Man and his migrations. , 1851.
  • Ethnology of British colonies. , 1851.
  • Ethnology of the British Islands. , 1852.
  • Ethnology of Europe. , 1852.
  • The native races of the Russian empire. In 1854.
  • Varieties of the human species. In 1855.
  • Descriptive ethnology. 1859 ( 2 vols )
  • The nationalities of Europe. 1863 ( 2 vols )
  • Logic in its application to language. In 1856.
  • Robert Gordon Latham: Elements of comparative philology. , 1862. ( Based on Samuel Johnson and Henry John Todd's Dictionary of the English Language )
  • John Mitchell Kemble: Horae Ferales, or Studies in the Archaeology of Northern Nations.
  • Tacitus: Germania. 1850 ( with comprehensive essays )

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  • Linguist
  • Ethnologist
  • English
  • Briton
  • Born in 1812
  • Died in 1888
  • Man
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