Sir John Rhŷs, FBA PC was a Welsh scholar, fellow of the British Academy, Celticist and the first professor of Celtic at Oxford University.
Born 21 June 1840 at Aberceiro, Cwmrheidol, Cardiganshire, according to the official registrar. He was the son of Hugh Rees.
John Rhŷs (1840-1915) was one of Britain's most prominent scholars of Celtic Studies at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.
Sir John Rhys is best known to modern scholarship as the first philologist to occupy the Chair of Celtic at Oxford – the position famously proposed by ...
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Sir John Rhŷs was a founding Fellow of the British Academy. He established himself as a Celtic scholar through research carried out when he was an HM ...
John Rhys was always looking for the big, far-reaching conclusions. Place-names in the Iberian peninsula were the data for inferring a former southward ...
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13. okt. 2015 · Sir John Rhŷs (1840-1915) was a pioneer in his field. Described by the newspaper Llais Llafur as “the greatest Welsh scholar of our time” when he died.
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Sir John was Professor of Celtic and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, at the turn of the century. He lived at just the right time, and I think I can say the ...
