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Richard Bentley

1662 - 1742

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Richard Bentley FRS (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley "the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred". Bentley's Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, published in 1699, proved that the letters in question, supposedly written in the 6th century BCE by the Sicilian tyrant Phalaris, were actually a forgery produced by a Greek sophist in the 2nd century CE. Bentley's investigation of the subject is still regarded as a landmark of textual criticism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Bentley is the 5,034th most popular writer (down from 4,919th in 2019), the 3,975th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,584th in 2019) and the 428th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Richard Bentley ranks 5,034 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry of Huntingdon, Oskar Pastior, Hervé Guibert, Robert Hugh Benson, Diomidis Kyriakos, and Mirjam Pressler. After him are Alexei Mateevici, Botho Strauß, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Atiq Rahimi, Nicholas Evans, and Vladimir Makanin.

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Among people born in 1662, Richard Bentley ranks 14. Before him are Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach, William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jan Frans van Bloemen, Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, and Sebastiano Mocenigo. After him are Matthew Henry, and Balaji Vishwanath. Among people deceased in 1742, Richard Bentley ranks 16. Before him are Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg, Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Carlos Seixas, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Willem 's Gravesande.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Bentley ranks 3,976 out of 8,785. Before him are Harry Maguire (1993), John Derbyshire (1878), Robert Hugh Benson (1871), Marc Almond (1957), Nick Land (1962), and Henry James Sumner Maine (1822). After him are E. T. Whittaker (1873), William Hemsley (1843), Ivor Bueb (1923), Jim Marshall (1923), Richard Attwood (1940), and Tony Crook (1920).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Richard Bentley ranks 428. Before him are W. W. Jacobs (1863), George Borrow (1803), Fay Weldon (1931), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Henry of Huntingdon (1080), and Robert Hugh Benson (1871). After him are Nicholas Evans (1950), Kim Newman (1959), Margery Allingham (1904), Mary Stewart (1916), Sarah Kane (1971), and Linda Grant (1951).

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