1742
Richard Bentley, English scholar and theologian (born 1662)
Richard Bentley, English scholar and theologian (born 1662)
Richard Bentley, English scholar and theologian (born 1662)
Richard Bentley
English classical scholar, critic, and theologian (1662–1742)
- Died
- 1742
Richard Bentley 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".