Lang, Andrew (1844)
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born on | 31 March 1844 at 05:20 (= 05:20 AM ) | ||||
Place | Selkirk, Scotland, 55n33, 2w50 | ||||
Timezone | LMT m2w50 (is local mean time) | ||||
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Biography
Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology.
He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales.
The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
He died on 20 July 1912, aged 68, in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes him in "At the Sign of the Ship" by Andrew Lang, Longman's Magazine, 33.193 (1898), p. 93: "Some amateur has sent me my horoscope ... 'Twenty-seventh degree of Pisces rising.'"
NB: This calculates as 5:20am.
Categories
- Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Historian
- Vocation : Science : Anthropology
- Vocation : Writers : Critic (Literary critic)
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction (Novelist)
- Vocation : Writers : Poet