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Whitley Stokes is perhaps most famous as a Celtic scholar, and in this field he worked both in India and in England. He studied Irish, Breton and Cornish texts. His chief interest in Irish was as a source of material for comparative philology.
17. Sept. 2009 · Whitley Stokes, “extraordinary” Irish scholar, remembered – 100 years on. One of Ireland’s greatest scholars, whose pioneering work changed the face of Celtic studies, will be remembered at a Cambridge University conference this weekend marking the 100th anniversary of his death.
Stokes, Whitley (1830–1909), lawyer and Celtic scholar, was born 28 February 1830 in Dublin, the eldest son of Dr William Stokes (qv), heart specialist, and his wife, Mary, daughter of John Black of Glasgow. The Stokes children were raised in a family steeped in Celtic culture and tradition.
Such a figure was that of Dr. Whitley Stokes, the great scholar whose death on April 13th of this year, at the age of 79, deprived Celtic learning of its chief and head. His very presence seemed to infuse intellectual energy into the atmosphere around him. In his neighbourhood the most unlearned began to feel that there must reside some secret ...
Celtic scholar and philologist Whitley Stokes (1830–1909) edited and translated many important early medieval texts from Ireland, in Latin and Irish, which remain standard reading. This two-volume edition of works about Patrick, the fifth-century apostle to Ireland, was first published in 1887.
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Der Artikel Boyle, E. &P. Russell: The tripartite life of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909) wurde am 1. November 2012 in der Zeitschrift Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie (Band 59, Heft 1) veröffentlicht.
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