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data:
  actNote:
    - authority: sswd
      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: Personen zu Sprache (11.2p)
      uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#11.2p
    - authority: sswd
      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: Personen zu Literaturgeschichte (Schriftsteller) (12.2p)
      uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#12.2p
    - intro: lang
      lang: eng
      text: English
    - intro: irsp
      lang: fre
      text: Auteur
  bioDates:
    - end: 1808
      lang: eng
      start: 1759
      text: 1759-1808
    - end: 1808
      lang: und
      start: 1759
      text: 1759-1808
    - end: 1808
      lang: fre
      start: 1759
      text: 25.12.1759-25.09.1808
    - end: 1808
      lang: pol
      start: 1759
      text: 1759-1808
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    - code: WDAT
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Wikidata description set
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      typeOfResource: same
    - code: DNBI
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
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      typeOfResource: same
    - code: PARB
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
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      typeOfResource: orig
    - code: KAPE
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Manuscript material
      searchTerm: 119420007
      typeOfResource: bibl
    - code: LINK
      note:
        - lang: und
          text: 'A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person:  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Richard_Porson" class="extiw" title="w:en:Richard Porson"><span title="English classical scholar (1759-1808)">Richard Porson</span></a> - English classical scholar (1759-1808)'
      rights: '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:William_Holl_the_Elder" class="extiw" title="w:en:William Holl the Elder"><span title="English engraver and radical">William Holl</span></a> / <table style="width:100%;border:1px red solid; background:#f6f6f4; padding:0; margin:auto;"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_llgc_2013_1488px.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Logo_llgc_2013_1488px.jpg/450px-Logo_llgc_2013_1488px.jpg" decoding="async" width="450" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Logo_llgc_2013_1488px.jpg/675px-Logo_llgc_2013_1488px.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Logo_llgc_2013_1488px.jpg/900px-Logo_llgc_2013_1488px.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1488" data-file-height="244"></a></span></td><td>This image is available from the <big><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.llgc.org.uk/">National Library of Wales</a></b></big> You can view this image in its original context on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4672674"><b>NLW Catalogue</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table> -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait of Richard Porson, M.A (4672674).jpg'
      searchTerm: 'http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/File:Portrait of Richard Porson, M.A (4672674).jpg'
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  external:
    - auth: StAbUL
      country: GB
      date: 20140520
      id: 901
    - auth: GND
      country: DE
      date: 20160408
      id: 119420007
    - auth: GyGoGBV
      country: DE
      date: 20040429
      id: 133379450
    - auth: ESTC
      country: GB
      id: tb031251
    - auth: BNF
      catRules: AFNOR Z 44-061
      country: FR
      date: 20130808
      id: FRBNF103698216
    - auth: PlWaBN
      country: PL
      date: 20130228
      id: a22161090
  foundIn:
    - Prov. Reg. Notes (DNB)
    - LOC
    - DNB
    - GK55
    - DNB
    - NUC
    - 'PND, B 1986'
    - BN Cat. gén.
    - DNB
    - 'Ricardi Porsoni Adversaria, 1812'
    - 'Euripidis tragoediae. T. 1 / ed. Ricardus Porson. - Lipsiae, 1802.'
    - NUKAT
    - KAlfBN
  gender: b
  generalNote:
    - lang: eng
      text: 'Classical scholar. Born East Ruston, Norfolk 1759. Well educated at home by his parents, then attended free school aged 9. Tutored by John Norris aged 11, then entered Eton 1774-8. Entered Trinity Coll., Cambridge 1778 as a pensioner, elected to a fellowship 1785. Moved to London 1792. Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, 1792. Principal Librarian of the London Institution, 1806. Died London, 1808. Reputed as a formidable critic, published many critical works on classics as well as political works. Also reputed for his excessive drinking. Trinity Coll., Cambridge, possesses about 274 of his books, almost all of which contain short notes or memoranda written by him in the margins or on blank leaves.'
    - lang: ger
      text: Brit. klass. Philologe
    - lang: fre
      text: A aussi écrit en latin
    - lang: fre
      text: "Philologue. - A été professeur de grec à l'Université de Cambridge, GB"
  geoNote:
    - authority: iso3166
      intro: geon
      lang: und
      text: DE
    - authority: iso3166
      intro: geon
      lang: und
      text: GB
    - intro: ctry
      lang: ger
      text: Deutschland
    - intro: geon
      lang: ger
      text: Großbritannien
    - intro: nati
      lang: eng
      text: United Kingdom
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Porson
        - firstname: Richard
      usedBy:
        - StAbUL
    - part:
        - entry: Porson
        - firstname: Richard
      usedBy:
        - GyFmDB
        - ESTC(AACR2)
        - ESTC(GK)
        - GyGoGBV
    - part:
        - entry: Porson
        - firstname: Richard
      usedBy:
        - BNF
    - part:
        - entry: Porson
        - firstname: Richard
      usedBy:
        - PlWaBN
  imprintSource:
    - title: 'Adversaria, Notae et emendationes in poetas Graecos. - 1814'
    - title: 'Adversaria. - 1812'
    - title: 'Aeschylus: Tragoediae. - 1827'
    - title: 'Annotata ad Pausaniam. - 1820'
    - title: 'Euripides: Hecuba, Phoenissae, Orestes, Medea. - 1817 - 1818'
    - title: 'Euripides: Phoenissae. - 1822'
    - title: 'Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis in answer. - 1790'
    - title: 'T088597: his Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis, 1790 tp=By R. Porson'
    - title: 'The Correspondance of Rich. Porson. - 1867'
    - title: 'Tracts and Miscellaneous Criticisms. - 1815'
  name:
    - part:
        - entry: Porson
        - firstname: R.
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Porson
        - firstname: R.
        - addition: Richard
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Porson
        - firstname: Ric.
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Porson
        - firstname: Ricardus
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Porsonius
        - firstname: Ricardus
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Porsonus
        - firstname: Ricardus
      typeOfName: varn
    - part:
        - entry: Porsonus
        - firstname: Richardus
      typeOfName: varn
  place:
    - note:
        - lang: fre
          text: Lieu de naissance
      part:
        - name: 'East Ruston, GB'
      start: 1759
      typeOfPlace: brth
    - id: cnl00026812
      note:
        - lang: fre
          text: Lieu de mort
      part:
        - name: Londres
      start: 1808
      typeOfPlace: deat
  previousId:
    - cnp01883321
    - cnp00115899
    - cnp00036770
    - cnp00555303
    - cnp01895960
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2004-07-06T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2013-02-28T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2015-12-14T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2016-10-25T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2004-07-13T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2006-11-01T09:49:21Z
    - timestamp: 2007-01-15T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2007-02-02T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2017-01-23T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-05-03T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-09-25T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2020-05-27T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2020-09-14T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2024-02-08T12:00:00Z
  remark:
    - 'Humanista angielski, badacz klasycyzmu.'
  status: n