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Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
Jul 29, 2024 · Andrew Lang (31 March 1844–20 July 1912) was a polymath. Educated at the University of St Andrews, the University of Glasgow (for a year, in order to earn the Snell Exhibition to Balliol College), and in Oxford, he was a fellow at Merton College from 1868–1875, when he moved to London and took up journalism.
Jul 20, 1998 · Andrew Lang (born March 31, 1844, Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scot.—died July 20, 1912, Banchory, Aberdeenshire) was a Scottish scholar and man of letters noted for his collections of fairy tales and translations of Homer.
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The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many ...
Mythology. Lang approached the study of mythology from multiple angles: as a Homeric scholar and translator, as an anthropologist with interests in the origin of religion, as a folklorist and fairy tale scholar, and as a creative writer.
Andrew Lang was a prolific Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known today for his collections of fairy tales, which introduced generations of children to world folklore.
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