Electronic Enlightenment Biographical Dictionary
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Name : Reverend William Wotton
Dates : born 1666–died 1727
Nationality : English
Occupation : academician; churchman; linguist; theologian
Correspondents include : Jean Le Clerc; Reverend James Kirkwood
Current document count : 6 written; 5 received . . . .
DOI
Full-text resources in the Oxford Text Archive*
- A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
- Reflections upon ancient and modern learning by William Wotton ...
- Reflections upon ancient and modern learning. The second part, With a dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides; &c. and fables of Æsop.
* The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) — a major repository of tens-of-thousands of full-text works — has moved to the Bodleian Library to join with Electronic Enlightenment. These two outstanding collections are involved in the creation of a new scholarly resource: “Lives, letters & works”.
