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The General Dictionary, Historical and Critical was a biographical dictionary published from 1734 to 1741 in London in 10 volumes.
Contributors
[edit]The dictionary derived from the Dictionnaire historique et critique of Pierre Bayle, already translated into English in 1710 by Pierre des Maizeaux as An Historical and Critical Dictionary,[1] but expanded the material with many biographies of English figures, this work being assigned largely to Thomas Birch.[2] The other two main editors were John Peter Bernard, whose efforts led to his admission as a Fellow of the Royal Society,[3] and John Lockman, who undertook a fresh translation of Bayle's work.[4]
The publishers were Richard Chandler and Caesar Ward.[5]
Impact
[edit]The work has been described as the "first important ancestor" of the Dictionary of National Biography.[6]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ George Watson, The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2; Volumes 1660-1800 (1971), p. 1969. Google Books
- ↑ Miller, David Philip. "Birch, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2436. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Carter, Philip. "Bernard, John Peter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2246. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Sambrook, James. "Lockman, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16912. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Dictionary of National Biography, Chandler, Richard (d. 1744), printer and bookseller, by H. R. Tedder. Published 1887.
- ↑ Osborn, James Marshall (1938). "Thomas Birch and the "General Dictionary" (1734-41)". Modern Philology. 36 (1): 25–46. doi:10.1086/388346. JSTOR 434476. S2CID 161864763.
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