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Robert Nisbet Bain (1854–1909) was a British historian and linguist who worked for the British Museum.[1][2][3]

Robert Nisbet Bain
The grave of Robert Nisbet Bain in Brookwood Cemetery
Born1854
Died1909
NationalityBritish
EmployerBritish Museum
Known forLinguist

Life


Bain was born in London in 1854 to David and Elizabeth (born Cowan) Bain.[1]

Bain was a fluent linguist who could use over twenty languages. Besides translating a number of books he also used his skills to write learned books on foreign people and folklore. Bain was a frequent contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica.[4] His contributions were biographies and varied from Andrew Aagensen to Aleksander Wielopolski. He taught himself Hungarian in order that he could read Mór Jókai in the original after first reading him in German. He translated from Finnish, Danish and Russian and also tackled Turkish authors via Hungarian. He was the most prolific translator into English from Hungarian in the nineteenth century. He married late and died young after publishing a wide range of literature from or about Europe.[1]

He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery.


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References


  1. Czigány, Lóránt. "Bain, Robert Nisbet (1854–1909)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30536. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Norgate, Gerald le Grys (1912). "Bain, Robert Nisbet" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. "Bain, Robert Nisbet". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 75.
  4. Author:Robert Nisbet Bain  via Wikisource.
  5. Bains' works at gutenberg.org, accessed June 2010.
  6. Jókai, Mór (3 April 2007). A Hungarian Nabob via Project Gutenberg.
  7. Lie, Jonas; Housman, Laurence (21 September 2004). Weird Tales from Northern Seas via Project Gutenberg.
  8. Bredsdorff, Elias (1 January 1947). "Danish Literature in English Translation". Orbis Litterarum. 5 (1): 187–257. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0730.1947.tb00954.x.
  9. Wharton, L. C. (1 November 1921). "Transcription of Foreign Tongues". Transactions of the Philological Society. 29 (1): 59–112. doi:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1921.tb00762.x.



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[de] Robert Nisbet Bain

Robert Nisbet Bain (* 1854; † Mai 1909) war ein britischer Historiker, Folklorist und Linguist, der dank seiner umfassenden Sprachkenntnisse Arbeiten zur skandinavischen und russischen Geschichte sowie Übersetzungen aus skandinavischen, slawischen und der ungarischen Sprache veröffentlichte.
- [en] Robert Nisbet Bain



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