The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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New York
HarperCollins
1998
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
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| Abstract: | The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking. Professor James Murray, an astonishingly learned former schoolmaster and bank clerk, was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations of words to be used in the dictionary. But Minor was no ordinary contributor. He was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, fifty miles from Oxford. On numerous occasions Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate his work, but Murray's offer was regularly - and mysteriously - refused. Thus the two men, for two decades, maintained a close relationship only through correspondence. Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary but had still never traveled from his home, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray finally learned the truth about Minor - that, in addition to being a masterful wordsmith, Minor was also a murderer, clinically insane - and locked up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics. |
| Umfang: | XI, 242 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0060175966 |
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| spelling | Winchester, Simon 1944- Verfasser (DE-588)123917484 aut The professor and the madman a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary Simon Winchester 1. ed. New York HarperCollins 1998 XI, 242 S. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking. Professor James Murray, an astonishingly learned former schoolmaster and bank clerk, was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations of words to be used in the dictionary. But Minor was no ordinary contributor. He was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, fifty miles from Oxford. On numerous occasions Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate his work, but Murray's offer was regularly - and mysteriously - refused. Thus the two men, for two decades, maintained a close relationship only through correspondence. Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary but had still never traveled from his home, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray finally learned the truth about Minor - that, in addition to being a masterful wordsmith, Minor was also a murderer, clinically insane - and locked up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics. Minor, William Chester <1834-1920> Murray, James Augustus Henry <1837-1915> ram Murray, James Augustus Henry <Sir, 1837-1915> - Amis et relations Minor, William Chester Murray, James Augustus Henry <Sir, 1837-1915> Murray, James Augustus Henry 1837-1915 (DE-588)119155869 gnd rswk-swf Minor, William Chester 1835-1920 (DE-588)120844419 gnd rswk-swf New English dictionary on historical principles Oxford English dictionary The Oxford English dictionary (DE-588)4185017-8 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte gnd rswk-swf Anglais (Langue) - Lexicographie Anglais (Langue) - Étymologie Anglais (langue) - Lexicographie ram Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais - Histoire et critique Lexicographes - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies Lexicographes - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies ram Patients dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques - Angleterre - Biographies Patients dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies ram Englisch Geschichte Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865) English language Etymology English language Lexicography English language Lexicography History 19th century Lexicographers Great Britain Biography Psychiatric hospital patients Great Britain Biography Entstehung (DE-588)4156614-2 gnd rswk-swf Lexikografie (DE-588)4035548-2 gnd rswk-swf États-Unis - Histoire - 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) - Anciens combattants - Biographies Großbritannien USA United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Veterans Biography (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content The Oxford English dictionary (DE-588)4185017-8 u Entstehung (DE-588)4156614-2 s DE-604 Murray, James Augustus Henry 1837-1915 (DE-588)119155869 p Minor, William Chester 1835-1920 (DE-588)120844419 p Geschichte z Lexikografie (DE-588)4035548-2 s 1\p DE-604 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Winchester, Simon 1944- The professor and the madman a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary Minor, William Chester <1834-1920> Murray, James Augustus Henry <1837-1915> ram Murray, James Augustus Henry <Sir, 1837-1915> - Amis et relations Minor, William Chester Murray, James Augustus Henry <Sir, 1837-1915> Murray, James Augustus Henry 1837-1915 (DE-588)119155869 gnd Minor, William Chester 1835-1920 (DE-588)120844419 gnd New English dictionary on historical principles Oxford English dictionary The Oxford English dictionary (DE-588)4185017-8 gnd Anglais (Langue) - Lexicographie Anglais (Langue) - Étymologie Anglais (langue) - Lexicographie ram Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais - Histoire et critique Lexicographes - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies Lexicographes - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies ram Patients dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques - Angleterre - Biographies Patients dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies ram Englisch Geschichte Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865) English language Etymology English language Lexicography English language Lexicography History 19th century Lexicographers Great Britain Biography Psychiatric hospital patients Great Britain Biography Entstehung (DE-588)4156614-2 gnd Lexikografie (DE-588)4035548-2 gnd |
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| title | The professor and the madman a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary |
| title_auth | The professor and the madman a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary |
| title_exact_search | The professor and the madman a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary |
| title_full | The professor and the madman a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary Simon Winchester |
| title_fullStr | The professor and the madman a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary Simon Winchester |
| title_full_unstemmed | The professor and the madman a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary Simon Winchester |
| title_short | The professor and the madman |
| title_sort | the professor and the madman a tale of murder insanity and the making of the oxford english dictionary |
| title_sub | a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary |
| topic | Minor, William Chester <1834-1920> Murray, James Augustus Henry <1837-1915> ram Murray, James Augustus Henry <Sir, 1837-1915> - Amis et relations Minor, William Chester Murray, James Augustus Henry <Sir, 1837-1915> Murray, James Augustus Henry 1837-1915 (DE-588)119155869 gnd Minor, William Chester 1835-1920 (DE-588)120844419 gnd New English dictionary on historical principles Oxford English dictionary The Oxford English dictionary (DE-588)4185017-8 gnd Anglais (Langue) - Lexicographie Anglais (Langue) - Étymologie Anglais (langue) - Lexicographie ram Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais - Histoire et critique Lexicographes - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies Lexicographes - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies ram Patients dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques - Angleterre - Biographies Patients dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies ram Englisch Geschichte Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865) English language Etymology English language Lexicography English language Lexicography History 19th century Lexicographers Great Britain Biography Psychiatric hospital patients Great Britain Biography Entstehung (DE-588)4156614-2 gnd Lexikografie (DE-588)4035548-2 gnd |
| topic_facet | Minor, William Chester <1834-1920> Murray, James Augustus Henry <1837-1915> Murray, James Augustus Henry <Sir, 1837-1915> - Amis et relations Minor, William Chester Murray, James Augustus Henry <Sir, 1837-1915> Murray, James Augustus Henry 1837-1915 Minor, William Chester 1835-1920 New English dictionary on historical principles Oxford English dictionary The Oxford English dictionary Anglais (Langue) - Lexicographie Anglais (Langue) - Étymologie Anglais (langue) - Lexicographie Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais - Histoire et critique Lexicographes - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies Patients dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques - Angleterre - Biographies Patients dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies Englisch Geschichte Sezessionskrieg (1861-1865) English language Etymology English language Lexicography English language Lexicography History 19th century Lexicographers Great Britain Biography Psychiatric hospital patients Great Britain Biography Entstehung Lexikografie États-Unis - Histoire - 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) - Anciens combattants - Biographies Großbritannien USA United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Veterans Biography Biografie |
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