[2], At the age of seventy-four he succumbed to pneumonia, and died at his Oxford home, Thackley, 119 Banbury Road, on 27 February 1930, and was buried at Oxford. In 1896 Wright married Elizabeth Mary Lea (1863–1958), with whom he co-authored his Old and Middle English Grammars. Joseph Wright (linguist) - WikiMili, The Free Encyclopedia - WikiMili, The Free Encyclopedia. He started work as a "donkey-boy" in a quarry at the age of six, leading a donkey-drawn cart full of tools to the smithy to be sharpened. In the 2019 biopic Tolkien, Professor Wright is portrayed by Sir Derek Jacobi. [citation needed], Wright's greatest achievement is considered to be the editing of the six-volume English Dialect Dictionary, which he published between 1898 and 1905, initially at his own expense. This remains a definitive work, a snapshot of English dialect speech at the end of the 19th century. [citation needed], Returning to Yorkshire, Wright continued his studies at the Yorkshire College of Science (later the University of Leeds) while working as a schoolmaster. That's it. Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! [2], Wright and his wife were known for their hospitality to their students and would often invite a dozen or more, both men and women, to their home for Yorkshire Sunday teas. I‘ll tell you. [6], Although Wright was a progressive to the extent that he believed women were entitled to a university education, he did not believe that women should be made voting members of the university, saying they were, "... less independent in judgement than men and apt to run in a body like sheep". Joseph Wright (linguist) For other people named Joseph Wright, see Joseph Wright. Wright was an important early influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, and was one of his tutors at Oxford: studying the Grammar of the Gothic Language (1910) with Wright seems to have been a turning point in Tolkien's life. C It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. From 1891 to 1901 he was Deputy Professor and from 1901 to 1925 Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford. Wright was an important early influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, and was one of his tutors at Oxford: studying the Grammar of the Gothic Language (1910) with Wright seems to have been a turning point in Tolkien's life. [2] In 1932 his widow, Elizabeth, published a biography of Wright, The Life of Joseph Wright. Born: 31 October 1855. [3], From 1891 to 1901, Wright was Deputy Professor and from 1901 to 1925 Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford. Everybody knows now about dialect, owing to his dixery. Suffice it to say that Joseph Wright was an admirable researcher and research manager and that his comprehensive dialect dictionary, with a total of more than 5000 pages in six volumes, has wrongly been neglected, even ignored. On these occasions Wright would perform his party trick of making his Aberdeen Terrier, Jack, lick his lips when Wright said the Gothic words for fig-tree – smakka bagms. Wright was greatly admired by Virginia Woolf, who writes of him in her diary: The triumph of learning is that it leaves something done solidly for ever. "[8] He was the inspiration for the character of Mr Brook in The Pargiters, an early draft of The Years. [citation needed]. I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. [3], Although his energies were for the most part directed towards his work, Wright also enjoyed gardening and followed Yorkshire cricket and football teams. London: Allen & Unwin. Wright was born in Idle, near Bradford in Yorkshire, the second son of Dufton Wright, a woollen cloth weaver and quarryman, and his wife Sarah Ann (née Atkinson). He also wrote a historical grammar of German. He later became a bobbin doffer – responsible for removing and replacing full bobbins – in a Yorkshire mill in Sir Titus Salt's model village. Edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien. Contents 1 Early life However, Wright opted to stay in Oxford and finish the Dialect Dictionary without any financial backing from a sponsor. For other people named Joseph Wright, see, Association for the Higher Education of Women, "The tale of Joseph Wright: from donkey boy to don", Comparative Grammar Of The Greek Language, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Wright_(linguist)&oldid=980148498. At the age of 18, around 1874, he even started his own night-school, charging his colleagues twopence a week. From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core, For other people named Joseph Wright, see, "Idle scholar who brought local language to book", Comparative Grammar Of The Greek Language, Portraits of Linguists and their Studies in the area of Old Germanic Languages, Idle scholar who brought local language to book, https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Wright_(linguist)&oldid=3930504, Diebold Professors of Comparative Philology, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, About Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core. Wright had been offered a position at a Canadian university, who would have paid him an annual salary of £500 – a very generous salary at the time. Undoubtedly, his greatest achievement was the editing of the six-volume English Dialect Dictionary, which he published between 1898 and 1905, initially at his own expense. on Qualitative and Quantitative Changes of the Indo-Germanic Vowel System in Greek. Wright was greatly admired by Virginia Woolf, who writes of him in her diary that, "The triumph of learning is that it leaves something done solidly for ever. [1] He started work as a "donkey-boy" in a quarry around 1862 at the age of 6 years old,[citation needed] leading a donkey-drawn cart full of tools to the smithy to be sharpened. Joseph Wright FBA (31 October 1855 – 27 February 1930) was an English philologist who rose from humble origins to become Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University. By 1876 he had saved £40 and could afford a term's study at the University of Heidelberg, although he walked from Antwerp to save money. [3], He later returned to Heidelberg and in 1885 completed a PhD. Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. In 1888, after his return from Germany, Wright was offered a post at Oxford University by Professor Max Müller, and became a lecturer to the Association for the Higher Education of Women and deputy lecturer in German at the Taylor Institution. Joseph Wright. [5], Wright's papers are in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, United Kingdom, Europe. You could also do it yourself at any point in time. Writing to his son Michael in 1963, J. R. R. Tolkien reflected on his time studying with Wright: In the course of editing the Dictionary (1898), Wright corresponded regularly with Thomas Hardy about the Dorset dialect. Wright had been offered a position at a Canadian university, who would have paid him an annual salary of £500 – a very generous salary at the time. A former pupil of Wright's recalls that, "with a piece of chalk [he would] draw illustrative diagrams at the same time with each hand, and talk while he was doing it". Early life. He later said of this time, "Reading and writing, for me, were as remote as any of the sciences". Wright had been offered a position at a Canadian university, who would have paid him an annual salary of £500 – a very generous salary at the time. [3], Although his energies were for the most part directed towards his work, Wright also enjoyed gardening and followed Yorkshire cricket and football teams. [1] He started work as a "donkey-boy" in a quarry at the age of six, leading a donkey-drawn cart full of tools to the smithy to be sharpened. He specialised in the Germanic languages and wrote a range of introductory grammars for Old English, Middle English, Old High German, Middle High German and Gothic which were still being revised and reprinted 50 years after his death. Joseph Wright FBA (31 October 1855 – 27 February 1930)[1]

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