John Mitchell Kemble

John Mitchell Kemble ( born April 2, 1807 in London, † March 26, 1857 in Dublin ) was an English language and history researchers.

Kemble, brother of Frances Anne Kemble and son of actor Charles Kemble, studied at Cambridge, sat since 1829 language study under Jakob Grimm in Göttingen continued and stepped with his classic edition of the Anglo - saxon poem of Beowulf (London 1833. Using the Engl. translation 1837) on as a writer.

In 1834 he gave at the University of Cambridge, the first lectures on Anglo-Saxon literature, which are present in printed his first history of the English language ( Cambridge 1834). In 1836 he married the daughter of the Göttingen professor Johann Amadeus Wendt.

Other works

• About the pedigrees of the West Saxons (Munich 1836),
• Codex diplomaticus aevi Saxonici (London 1845-48, 6 vols ), published at the expense of the co-founders of English historical Society ol Science, and
• State papers and correspondence illustrative of the social and political state of Europe (ibid. 1857).

From the scale to 4 volumes History of the Saxons appeared in England in 1848 only 2 volumes ( new ed 1876; German by Heinrich Bernhard Christian Brandes, Leipz 1853. ). Kemble was for many years editor of the British and foreign review. He died on 26 March 1857 in Dublin.

His unfinished work bequeathed Horae Ferales, or Studies in the Archaeology of Northern Nations was completed by Robert Gordon Latham and edited (London 1864).