Richard Bentley

English classical scholar, critic, and theologian (1662–1742)

Richard Bentley (27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, Anglican cleric, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley "the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred".

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