Richard Knolles

Richard Knolles

Richard Knolles (c. 1545 - July 1610) was an English historian, famous for his account of the Ottoman Empire, the first major description in the English language.

A native of Northamptonshire, he was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow. Some time after 1571, he left Oxford to become master of a school at Sandwich, Kent, where he died in 1610. In 1603, Knolles published his "Generall Historie of the Turkes", of which several editions subsequently appeared, among them Sir Paul Rycaut's edition (1700); Rycaut brought the history down to 1699.

Knolles' original work was dedicated to [James I of England|King James I and VI] . His work has considerable merits of style and arrangement.

Knolles also published a translation of Jean Bodin's "De Republica" in 1606, but the "Grammatica Latina, Graeca et Hebraica", attributed to him by Anthony Wood and others, is the work of the Rev. Hanserd Knollys (c. 1599-1691), a Baptist minister.

References

*1911 (This article is reproduced here: [http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/KHA_KRI/KNOLLES_RICHARD_c_1545_1610_.html] ).


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