Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916

LC control no.	n 79065901
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	J. J. (Joseph Jacobs), 1854-1916 ג'קובס, ג'וזף, 1854-1916 דזשײקאבס, דזשאזעף
Associated place	Cambridge (England) Berlin (Germany) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1854-08-29
Death date	1916-01-30
Place of birth	Sydney (N.S.W.)
Place of death	Yonkers (N.Y.)
Profession or occupation	Folklorists Historians Authors Editors
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found in	His The American Jewish year book ... 1899- The fables of Æsop, 189-?: pref. (J.J.) Wikipedia, July 12, 2016 (Joseph Jacobs; (29 August 1854-30 January 1916) was an Australian folklorist, literary critic, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore; popularized some of the world's best known versions of English fairy tales; published fairy tales collected from continental Europe as well as Jewish, Celtic and Indian Fairytales, which made him one of the most popular writers of fairytales for the English language; was also an editor for journals and books on the subject of folklore; became an editor of the society journal Folklore; also contributed to the Jewish Encyclopedia; born in Sydney, Australia; was educated at Sydney Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, where he won a scholarship for classics, mathematics and chemistry; did not complete his studies in Sydney, but left for England at the age of 18 and entered St John's College, Cambridge; graduated with a B.A. in 1876, and in 1877, studied at the University of Berlin; In 1900, he accepted an invitation to become revising editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia, which was then being prepared at New York, and settled permanently in the United States; died on 30 January 1916) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Jacobs>