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Richard Bentley

1662 - 1742

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Richard Bentley FRS (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley "the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred". Bentley's Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, published in 1699, proved that the letters in question, supposedly written in the 6th century BCE by the Sicilian tyrant Phalaris, were actually a forgery produced by a Greek sophist in the 2nd century CE. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Bentley has received more than 171,758 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Richard Bentley is the 4,919th most popular writer (down from 4,533rd in 2019), the 3,584th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,399th in 2019) and the 409th most popular British Writer.

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Notable Works

A dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris
Phalaris
1699
Considerations upon the state of public affairs, at the beginning of the year MDCCXCVIII
Early works to 1800, Foreign relations, Politics and government
1798
The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism Demonstrated from The Advantage and Pleasure of a Religious Life, The Faculties of Human Souls, The Structure of Animate Bodies, & The Origin and Frame of the World
Early works to 1800, sermons, atheism
1693
A confutation of atheism from the structure and origin of humane bodies
Atheism, Early works to 1800, Controversial literature
1692
Remarks upon a late Discourse of free-thinking
Apologetics, Controversial literature, Early works to 1800
1713
A confutation of atheism from the structure and origin of human bodies
Early works to 1800, Atheism, Christianity and atheism
1693

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Bentley ranks 4,919 out of 7,302. Before him are Eugène Guillevic, József Katona, Jan Arnald, Edmund Wilson, Willem Bilderdijk, and Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau. After him are Ján Hollý, Beatriz Galindo, Sophia Elisabet Brenner, John Hersey, Heinrich Christian Boie, and Sam Houser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1662, Richard Bentley ranks 16. Before him are Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, Jan Frans van Bloemen, Balaji Vishwanath, Sebastiano Mocenigo, Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Matthew Henry.  Among people deceased in 1742, Richard Bentley ranks 16. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Carlos Seixas, John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Willem 's Gravesande, and Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Bentley ranks 3,584 out of 8,785. Before him are Kenney Jones (1948), John Anderson (1833), Callum Keith Rennie (1960), William Stukeley (1687), John Moore (1761), and Roy Wood (1946). After him are Jack Straw (1946), Colin Groves (1942), Robin Cook (1946), Sam Houser (1972), Ian Livingstone (1949), and Shirley Manson (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Richard Bentley ranks 409. Before him are Len Deighton (1929), Alan Woods (1944), Susan Blackmore (1951), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), Henry of Huntingdon (1080), and Jonathan Coe (1961). After him are Sam Houser (1972), Piers Anthony (1934), Amelia Edwards (1831), Pat Barker (1943), Robert Hugh Benson (1871), and Thomas Dekker (1572).

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