Arthur Patterson | |
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Born | 7 June 1835 |
Died | 29 September 1899 | (aged 64)
Burial place | Fiume Road Graveyard |
Nationality | British, Hungarian |
Occupation | academic |
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Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Arthur John Patterson (7 June 1835, London-29 September 1899, Budapest) was a British academic and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[1][2][3] He was an academic at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University.
Although Patterson was born in London, he was raised up in Radnorshire, Wales. In 1855, he went to study at the University of Cambridge. In 1859, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy. In 1862, he moved to the Kingdom of Hungary, then part of the Austrian Empire, and also learnt the Hungarian language. In 1873, he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In 1886, he founded the Department of English of the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University.[4] From 1886 he was a professor at the Eötvös Loránd University.
In 1985, G. F. Cushing wrote about him in the Hungarian Studies in English volume.[5]
He died in Budapest in 1899 and was buried at the Fiume Road Graveyard.[6]
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