Francis James Child

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Francis James Child was a 19th-century American scholar and folklorist best known for compiling the influential collection of traditional English and Scottish ballads known as the "Child Ballads."

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instanceOf folklorist
human
literary critic
scholar
university professor
collectionSubject traditional English ballads
traditional Scottish ballads
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1825-02-01
dateOfDeath 1896-09-11
educatedAt Harvard University
employer Harvard University
familyName Child
fieldOfWork English literature
ballad studies
folklore
medieval literature
genre ballad
givenName Francis
hasPartInWork 305 traditional ballads (Child Ballads)
influenced 20th-century folklore research
modern ballad scholarship
knownFor The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
compiling the Child Ballads
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement folklore studies
name Francis James Child self-link
nativeLanguage English
notableAchievement systematic classification and numbering of English and Scottish traditional ballads
notableWork The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
occupation folklorist
literary critic
scholar
university teacher
placeOfBirth Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
placeOfDeath Cambridge, Massachusetts
surface form: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
Professor of English at Harvard University
publicationPeriodOfMajorWork 1882–1898
residence Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts
surface form: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
sexOrGender male
workLocation Cambridge, Massachusetts
surface form: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Child hasNotableBearer Francis James Child
the ballad "The Battle of Otterburn" collectedBy Francis James Child
subject surface form: The Battle of Otterburn
ballads of Robin Hood cataloguedBy Francis James Child
Francis James Child name Francis James Child self-link