Alexander Chalmers ( born Alexander Chalmers ; March 29, 1759, Aberdeen - December 29, 1834) - British Scottish scientific writer, publisher and journalist, Shakespeare, author of biographies of prominent figures.
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| Date of Birth | March 29, 1759 |
| Place of Birth | Aberdeen , Scotland , UK |
| Date of death | December 29, 1834 (75 years old) |
| Place of death | London , UK |
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| Occupation | bookseller , publisher , mail reformer |
Biography
In 1777 he left his hometown to study medicine. He received a medical education, but almost did not work in his specialty, preferring journalism to medicine: after completing his education, he had to go to serve as a surgeon in the West Indies, but after arriving at Portsmouth port, from where he was supposed to sail there, changed his mind and went to London to study journalism . He mainly wrote political articles for Public Ledger , London Packe , St. James's Chronicle , Morning Chronicle . For some time he was an editor in the Morning Herald newspaper .
Proceedings
He is best known as the compiler of the General biographical Dictionary (32 volumes, 1812–1817), one of the first extensive biographical dictionaries that served as the source for most subsequent similar publications, and also as the author of Glossary to Shakspeare (1807). Under his editorship and with his biographical essays and preface, several collected works of English classics were published, including William Shakespeare , James Beatty, Henry Fielding , Samuel Johnson , Joseph Worthon , Alexander Pope , Edward Gibbon and Henry St. John .
Literature
- Chalmers, Alexander // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.