John Mitchell Kemble (1807 - 26 March 1857), English scholar and historian, was the eldest son of Charles Kemble the actor. He received his education partly from Dr Richardson, author of the Dictionary of the English Language, and partly at the grammar school of Bury St Edmunds, where he obtained in 1826 an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles. At the university his historical essays gained him high reputation.

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  • John Mitchell Kemble (1807 - 26 March 1857), English scholar and historian, was the eldest son of Charles Kemble the actor. He received his education partly from Dr Richardson, author of the Dictionary of the English Language, and partly at the grammar school of Bury St Edmunds, where he obtained in 1826 an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles. At the university his historical essays gained him high reputation. The bent of his studies was turned more especially towards the Anglo-Saxon period through the influence of one the brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm, under whom he studied at Göttingen (1831). His thorough knowledge of the Teutonic languages and his critical faculty were shown in his Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf (1833-1837), Über die Stammtafeln der Westsachsen (Munich 1836), Codex diplomaticus aevi Saxonici (London 1839-1848), and in many contributions to reviews; while his History of the Saxons in England (1849; new ed. 1876), though it must now be read with caution, was the first attempt at a thorough examination of the original sources of the early period of English history. He was editor of the British and Foreign Review from 1835 to 1844; and from 1840 to his death was examiner of plays. In 1857 he published State Papers and Correspondence illustrative of the Social and Political State of Europe from the Revolution to the Accession of the House of Hanover. His Horae Ferales, or Studies in the Archaeology of Northern Nations, was completed by Dr Robert Gordon Latham, and published in 1864. He married the daughter of Professor Amadeus Wendt of Göttingen in 1836; and had two daughters and a son; the elder daughter was the wife of Sir Charles Santley, the singer. He died at Dublin on 26 March 1857 and is buried there in Mount Jerome Cemetery.
  • John Mitchell Kemble war ein englischer Sprach- und Geschichtsforscher. Kemble, Bruder von Frances Anne Kemble und Sohn des Schauspielers Charles Kemble, studierte in Cambridge, setzte seit 1829 das Sprachstudium unter Jakob Grimm in Göttingen fort und trat mit seiner klassischen Ausgabe des Anglo-saxon poem of Beowulf (London 1833. mit der engl. Übersetzung 1837) als Schriftsteller auf. 1834 hielt er an der Universität Cambridge die ersten Vorlesungen über angelsächsische Literatur, die in seiner First history of the English language (Cambridge 1834) gedruckt vorliegen. 1836 heiratete er die Tochter des Göttinger Professors Amadeus Wendt.
  • Джон Митчелл Кембль — английский историк и филолог. Учился под руководством братьев Гримм в Гёттингене и занимался преимущественно англосаксонским периодом. Свои обширные знания он проявил в издании «Беовульфа» и в журнальных статьях: «Ueber die Stammtafel der Westsachsen», «Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonis». Его «History of the Saxons in England» была первой попыткой изучения ранней истории Англии по первоисточникам. В 1857 он опубликовал «State Papers and Correspondence illustrative of the Social and Political State of Europe from the Revolution to the accession of the House of Hanover».
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  • John Mitchell Kemble (1807 - 26 March 1857), English scholar and historian, was the eldest son of Charles Kemble the actor. He received his education partly from Dr Richardson, author of the Dictionary of the English Language, and partly at the grammar school of Bury St Edmunds, where he obtained in 1826 an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles. At the university his historical essays gained him high reputation.
  • John Mitchell Kemble war ein englischer Sprach- und Geschichtsforscher. Kemble, Bruder von Frances Anne Kemble und Sohn des Schauspielers Charles Kemble, studierte in Cambridge, setzte seit 1829 das Sprachstudium unter Jakob Grimm in Göttingen fort und trat mit seiner klassischen Ausgabe des Anglo-saxon poem of Beowulf (London 1833. mit der engl. Übersetzung 1837) als Schriftsteller auf.
  • Джон Митчелл Кембль — английский историк и филолог. Учился под руководством братьев Гримм в Гёттингене и занимался преимущественно англосаксонским периодом.
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  • John Mitchell Kemble
  • John Mitchell Kemble
  • Кембль, Джон Митчелл
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