John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824), the elder brother of William Daniel Conybeare, was a scholar of

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

. He was an accomplished scholar, and studied at

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. He became vicar of Batheaston, and was Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon (1808–1812), and afterwards Professor of Poetry (1812–1821), at the

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He published a translation of

Beowulf ''Beowulf'' (; ) is an Old English poetry, Old English poem, an Epic poetry, epic in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 Alliterative verse, alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and List of translat ...

in English and Latin verse (1814), but is particularly noted for his posthumously published 1826 ''Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry''. Like his brother, he was a student of

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and communicated papers to the '' Annals of Philosophy'' and the ''Transactions'' of the

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(Obituary in ''Ann. Phil.'' vol. viii., Sept. 1824, p. 162.) He gave the

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at Oxford in 1824. These were published posthumously (also in 1824) a
''An attempt to trace the History and ascertain the Limits of the Secondary and Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture''

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