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KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 767 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875) , English classical scholar, was born in London on the loth of
March
 , 1799. He was educated at St John's and Trinity Colleges,
Cambridge
 , and graduated 19th wrangler in 1821. From 1825 to 1827 he was professor of mathematics in the university of Virginia, and after his return to England was appointed (1828) professor of Latin in the newly founded university of London. In 1832 he became
joint
  headmaster of the school founded in connexion with that institution; in 1842 he resigned the professorship of Latin, and took up that of comparative grammar together with the undivided headmastership of the school. These two posts he held till his death on the 29th of November 1875. Key is best known for his introduction of the crude-form (the uninflected form or
stem
  of words)
system
 , in general use among Sanskrit grammarians,into the teaching of the'classicallanguages. This
system
  was embodied in his Latin Grammar (1846). In Language, its Origin and Development (1874), he upholds the onomatopoeic theory. Key was prejudiced against the German" Sanskritists," and the etymological portion of his Latin Dictionary, published in 1888, was severely 'criticized on this account. He was a member of the Royal Society and president of the Philological Society, to the Transactions of which he contributed largely.
See Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. xxiv. (1876); R. Ellis in the
Academy
  (Dec. 4, 1875); J. P. Hicks, T. Hewitt Key (1893), where a full
list
  of his works and contributions is given.


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