| LC control no. | n 86828871 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wilkinson, James John Garth, 1812-1899 |
| Variant(s) | Wilkinson, Garth, 1812-1899 Wilkinson, J. J. Garth (James John Garth), 1812-1899 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 18120603 |
| Death date | 18991018 |
| Field of activity | Medicine Surgery Homeopathy Translating and interpreting |
| Affiliation | Swedenborg Society |
| Profession or occupation | Physicians Surgeons Homeopathic physicians Translators |
| Found in | LCCN 06-7557: Swedenborg, E. The generative organs, considered anatomically, physically, and philosophically, 1852 (hdg.: Wilkinson, James John Garth, 1812-1899; usage: James John Garth Wilkinson) His Our social health, 1865: cover (Garth Wilkinson) The cases of the Welsh fasting girl & her father, 1870: t.p. (J.J. Garth Wilkinson) Oxford DNB online ed., 24 Feb. 2015 (Wilkinson, (James John) Garth, Swedenborgian writer and homoeopath, born in London on 3 June 1812; the eldest son of James John Wilkinson (bap. 1780, d. 1858), lawyer; at the age of about sixteen he was apprenticed by his father to Thomas Leighton, senior surgeon of the infirmary at Newcastle upon Tyne; in 1832 he went to London to train at various hospitals, and in June 1834 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries; early in life he was also introduced to the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, and became a member of the committee of the Swedenborg Society; from 1839 he devoted most of his literary energies to the translation and elucidation of Swedenborg's writings; he was versed in Icelandic and Scandinavian literature; he died in London on 18 October 1899) |
| Associated language | eng |
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