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John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824), the elder brother of William Daniel Conybeare, was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon. He was an accomplished scholar, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford. He became vicar of Batheaston, and was Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon (1808–1812), and afterwards Professor of Poetry (1812–1821), at the University of Oxford. ==Works== He published a translation of Beowulf in English and Latin verse (1814), but is particularly noted for his posthumously published 1826 ''Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry''.〔ed. by William Daniel Conybeare (London: Harding and Lepard). http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Illustrations_of_Anglo_Saxon_Poetry.html?id=vYwlAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y.〕 Like his brother, he was a student of geology and communicated papers to the ''Annals of Philosophy'' and the ''Transactions'' of the Geological Society of London (Obituary in ''Ann. Phil.'' vol. viii., Sept. 1824, p. 162.) He gave the Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1824. These were published posthumously (also in 1824) as (''An attempt to trace the History and ascertain the Limits of the Secondary and Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture'' ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Josias Conybeare」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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