R. B. Freeman
Richard Broke Freeman (1 April 1915 – 1 September 1986) was a zoologist, historian of zoology, bibliographer of natural history and book collector. Known professionally as R. B. Freeman, he compiled comprehensive reference works on Charles Darwin and on P. H. Gosse. He was “a meticulous scholar” and a “brilliant bibliographer” who showed “a genuine modesty about his great erudition.” "It is darkly rumored among antiquarian booksellers that R. B. Freeman once missed a completely unrecorded and absurdly rare 1859 second issue of the first edition of The Origin of Species", a reviewer wrote in the Times Literary Supplement, "but this is also said to be the only mistake he has made during a lifetime of persistent scholarship and imaginative detective work in libraries, bookshops, sale-rooms, t
Wikipage redirect
primaryTopic
R. B. Freeman
Richard Broke Freeman (1 April 1915 – 1 September 1986) was a zoologist, historian of zoology, bibliographer of natural history and book collector. Known professionally as R. B. Freeman, he compiled comprehensive reference works on Charles Darwin and on P. H. Gosse. He was “a meticulous scholar” and a “brilliant bibliographer” who showed “a genuine modesty about his great erudition.” "It is darkly rumored among antiquarian booksellers that R. B. Freeman once missed a completely unrecorded and absurdly rare 1859 second issue of the first edition of The Origin of Species", a reviewer wrote in the Times Literary Supplement, "but this is also said to be the only mistake he has made during a lifetime of persistent scholarship and imaginative detective work in libraries, bookshops, sale-rooms, t
has abstract
Richard Broke Freeman (1 April ...... the great-aunts of great men."
@en
academic discipline
alma mater
birth date
1915-04-01
death date
1986-09-01
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
Wikipage page ID
35,939,847
page length (characters) of wiki page
Wikipage revision ID
1,000,094,862
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
alma mater
birth date
1915-04-01
birth place
London, England
@en
caption
Freeman in London, 1974.
@en
death date
1986-09-01
death place
London, England
@en
image size
known for
The Works of Charles Darwin: A ...... ip Henry Gosse: A Bibliography
@en
name
R. B. Freeman
@en
nationality
United Kingdom
@en
wikiPageUsesTemplate
work institutions
subject
hypernym
sameAs
comment
Richard Broke Freeman (1 April ...... ries, bookshops, sale-rooms, t
@en
label
R. B. Freeman
@en
wasDerivedFrom
isPrimaryTopicOf
name
R. B. Freeman
@en