John Strachan (linguist)

John Strachan (1862–1907) was a scholar of Sanskrit, Ancient Greek and the Celtic languages. He was a professor at Owens College and the Victoria University of Manchester.^[1] He is best remembered for the Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, a collection of material in Old Irish that he edited together with Whitley Stokes, and for the textbook Old Irish Paradigms and Selections from the Old Irish Glosses, first published in 1904–05 and later revised by Osborn Bergin. Both of these works are still in print.

References

1. "Obituary. John Strachan". The Athenaeum (4171): 403–404. 5 October 1907.

External links

• "Strachan papers". The University of Manchester Library. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
• Researchers and writers on Irish
• "Strachan book collection". The University of Manchester Library. Retrieved 2012-09-02.