John Ormsby

British translator

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Born: 1829
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2015-10-16
2.Stated in Project GutenbergRetrieved 2017-10-09
3.Stated in Open LibraryRetrieved 2017-10-09
4.Stated in Open LibraryRetrieved 2017-10-09
5.Stated in SNACRetrieved 2017-10-09
6.Stated in Dictionary of Irish Biography
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Died: 1895
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2015-10-16
2.Stated in Project GutenbergRetrieved 2017-10-09
3.Stated in Open LibraryRetrieved 2017-10-09
4.Stated in Open LibraryRetrieved 2017-10-09
5.Stated in SNACRetrieved 2017-10-09
6.Stated in Dictionary of Irish Biography
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Place of death: Ramsgate
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-12-31
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Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupation: linguist
, writer
, translator
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2026-04-20
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Languages spoken, written or signed: Spanish
, English

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John Ormsby (1829–1895) was a nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish translator. He is most famous for his 1885 English translation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha, perhaps the most scholarly and accurate English translation of the novel up to that time. It is so precise that Samuel Putnam, who published his own English translation of the novel in 1949, faults Ormsby for duplicating Cervantes' pronouns so closely that the meaning of the sentences sometimes becomes confusing.

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Given name: John
Contributed to creative work: Dictionary of National Biography subject has role: biographer · subject named as: J. O.
Family name: Ormsby
Writing language: English
Sex or gender: male
Commons Creator page: John Ormsby

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