Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Henry Fanshawe Tozer, FBA (1829–1916) was an English writer, teacher, traveler, and geographer. His 1897 History of Ancient Geography was well-regarded.[1]
Life
After graduating from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1850, he was tutor there from 1855 to 1893 and was also curator of the Taylor Institution (Oxford) from 1869 to 1893.[2] His brother-in-law was Ernest Mason Satow. Fanshawe had a particular interest "in the intersection of geography and the classics".[1] He traveled much in Greece and in European and Asiatic Turkey.
Works
- Researches in the Highlands of Turkey (two volumes, 1869)
- Lectures on the Geography of Greece (1873)
- Primer of Classical Geography (1877)
- Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor (1881)
- The Church and the Eastern Empire (1888)
- The Islands of the Ægean (1890)
- Selections from Strabo (1893)[3]
- History of Ancient Geography (1897)
- An English Commentary on Dante's Divina Commedia (1901)
- Translation of the Divina Commedia (1904)
References
- 1 2 Koelsch, William A. “Henry Fanshawe Tozer: A ″Missing Person″ in Historical Geography?” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, vol. 72, 2010, pp. 118–127. JSTOR
- ↑ "TOZER, Rev. Henry Fanshawe". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1763.
- ↑ Arnold, William T. (January 1895). "Review of Selections from Strabo by the Rev. H. F. Tozer". The English Historical Review. 10: 116–118.
External links
Works written by or about Henry Fanshawe Tozer at Wikisource - Henry Tozer
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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