WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/14567636

The Professor and the Madman

A Tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

alternateName

http://schema.org/alternateName

  • "Oxford İngilizce sözlüğü'nü yaratan bir cinayet ve dostluk öyküsü"
  • "Professor and the madman"
  • "Professor and the madman"@it
  • "professor and the madman"@ja
  • "הפרופסור והמשגע"
  • "Profesor ṿeha-meshugaʻ"
  • "Professor & the madman"@en
  • "Hakushi to kyojin"
  • "hakase to kyōjin"@ja
  • "hakushi to kyōjin"@ja
  • "博士と狂人"
  • "Professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary"
  • "Gab bags"

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "When James Murray, the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, set out to meet Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon and Civil War veteran and one of his most prolific contributors, he found the man in Broadmoor, an asylum for the criminally insane."
  • "A Tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary."@en
  • "An extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men."@en
  • "The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the oeD, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane."@en
  • "The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane."@en
  • "The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking. Professor James Murray, an astonishingly learned former schoolmaster and bank clerk, was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations of words to be used in the dictionary. But Minor was no ordinary contributor. He was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, fifty miles from Oxford. On numerous occasions Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate his work, but Murray's offer was regularly - and mysteriously - refused. Thus the two men, for two decades, maintained a close relationship only through correspondence. Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary but had still never traveled from his home, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray finally learned the truth about Minor - that, in addition to being a masterful wordsmith, Minor was also a murderer, clinically insane - and locked up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics."
  • "Spanish translation of "Professor and the madman". The story of the relationship between James Murray, the coordinator for the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, and William Minor, a mental patient, one of his volunteer colaborators."
  • "Looks at the making of the Oxford English dictionary."@en
  • "A tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary."@en
  • "L'histoire vraie qui a accompagné l'élaboration de l'"Oxford English Dictionary". En 1890, James Murray, son rédacteur en chef, découvre que son correspondant le plus étonnant vit dans un asile et était un brillant chirurgien avant d'être interné à la suite d'un meurtre. Une histoire d'amitié et d'amour entre le chirurgien fou, le linguiste génial et la veuve de la victime."
  • "C'est sous l'angle de la folie et de l'énigme du docteur William Chester Minor, que l'auteur narre la passionnante aventure linguistique du ##Oxford English dictionary## (OED). Une oeuvre monumentale achevée en 1928, et qui a nécessité 70 ans de travail. Il fallait être fou pour s'attaquer à cette tâche, mais fou, le Dr Minor, collaborateur prolifique et acharné, l'était pour de vrai. Il vivait enfermé dans un asile d'aliénés criminels. Minor devint l'un des plus précieux collaborateurs de Murray, l'éditeur de l'EOD, ce qui ne l'empêchait pas de continuer à croire que des intrus se glissaient la nuit dans sa chambre pour le torturer. Tout en relatant la folie de Minor et sa relation avec Sir Murray, Simon Winchester décrit l'énorme travail fait autour du dictionnaire. Son récit est clair et agréable à lire, mais on regrette qu'il n'ait pas coupé un peu dans l'anecdote pour consacrer davantage d'espace à la fabuleuse histoire du dictionnaire. [SDM]."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Biographies"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Biografie"
  • "Dictionaries"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Biography"@he
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "History"@he
  • "History"
  • "History"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "El Profesor y el loco : una historia de crímenes, locura y amor por las palabras"
  • "瘋子.教授.大字典"
  • "ha-Profesor ṿeha-meshugaʻ : sipur ʻal retsaḥ, ʻal ṭeruf ṿe-ʻal ḥiburo shel Milon Oḳsford ha-gadol"
  • "Jiao shou yu feng zi"
  • "The Professor and the Madman"@en
  • "Hakase to kyojin : sekai saiko no jisho OED no tanjo hiwa"
  • "The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English dictionary"@en
  • "El profesor y el loco una historia de crímenes, locura y amor por las palabras"@es
  • "瘋子 . 敎授 . 大字典"
  • "O kathēgētēs kai o trellos : mia istoria phonou kai paraphrosynēs, pou parakolouthei tē dēmiourgia tou agglikou lexikou tēs Oxphordēs"
  • "The professor and the madman. P.S. : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary : insights, interviews & more"
  • "Dahi ve deli : Oxford İngilizce sözluğü'nü yaratan bir cinayet ve dostluk öyküsü = The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary"
  • "El professor i el boig : un relat d'assassinats, bogeria, i la creació de l'Oxford English Dictionary"
  • "博士と狂人 : 世界最高の辞書OEDの誕生秘話"
  • "Le Fou et le professeur : une histoire de meurtre, de démence, de mots et de dictionnaire"
  • "Hakase to kyojin : Sekai saiko no jisho OED no tanjo hiwa"
  • "The Professor and the madman : a tale of murder insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary"
  • "The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the O×ford English dictionary"
  • "הפרופסור והמשוגע : סיפור על רצח, על טירוף ועל חיבורו של מילון אוקספורד הגדול"
  • "The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford english dictionary"
  • "The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary"
  • "The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary"@en
  • "Feng zi.jiao shou. da zi dian"
  • "Le fou et le professeur : une histoire de meurtre, de démence, de mots et de dictionnaire ; traduit de l'anglais par Gérard Meudal"
  • "博士と狂人 : 世界最高の辞書 OED の誕生秘話"
  • "Professoren og galningen : en beretning om mord, sindssyge og tilblivelsen af Oxford English Dictionary"@da
  • "Professori ja hullu : kertomus murhasta, mielisairaudesta ja Oxford English Dictionaryn synnystä"@fi
  • "Dahi ve deli : Oxford İngilizce sözlüğü'nü yaratan bir cinayet ve dostluk öyküsü"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Le fou et le professeur : une histoire de meurte, de démence, de mots et de dictionnaire"
  • "El profesor y el loco : una historia de crímenes, locura y amor por palabras"
  • "Feng zi, jiao shou, da zi dian"
  • "El profesor y el loco : una historia de crímenes, locura y amor por las palabras"
  • "El profesor y el loco : una historia de crímenes, locura y amor por las palabras"@es
  • "The professor and the madman a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary"
  • "The professor and the madman a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary"@en
  • "Hakase to kyōjin : Sekai saikō no jisho OED no tanjō hiwa"@ja
  • "El Professor i el boig : un relat d'assassinats, bogeria i la creació de l'Oxford English Dictionary"@ca
  • "El Professor i el boig : un relat d'assassinats, bogeria i la creació de l'Oxford English Dictionary"
  • "The Proffessor and the Mad Man"@en
  • "Le fou et le professeur : une histoire de meurtre, de démence, de mots et de dictionnaire"
  • "El professor i el boig : un relat d'assassinats, bogeria, i la creació de l'Oxford English Dictionary /Simon Winchester ; traducció d'Ernest Riera"
  • "教授与疯子"
  • "L'assassino più colto del mondo : una storia di follia e amore per i libri nell'Inghilterra vittoriana"@it
  • "L'assassino più colto del mondo : una storia di follia e amore per i libri nell'Inghilterra vittoriana"
  • "The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary"
  • "The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary"@en
  • "Hakushi to kyōjin : Sekai saikō no jisho OED no tanjō hiwa"@ja
  • "Hakase to kyōjin : sekai saikō no jisho ōiidī no tanjō hiwa"
  • "The professor and the madman [a Gab bag for book discussion groups] : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary"
  • "The professor and the madman"@en

workExample

http://schema.org/workExample