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so long to present himself to the public in that shape.”
In no less a degree Ihre was honoured by the students,
the more so since his wit rarely or never had a sting in
it, though he himself confessed that in his writings
possibly satire sometimes proved stronger than his love
of humanity. Four times he was chosen Rector before
his industrious and beneficent life came to an end in
1780. Like Martial, he desired to be what he was and
wished for nothing else.
His etymological researches date from his translation
of Richard Steele’s The Ladies’ Library. In 1745 he
published outlines of the History of the Swedish
Language, which was followed by a Lexicon of Swedish
Dialects in 1766. He also wrote an essay on the
language of the famous Codex Argenteus in the library
of Upsala, which he proved to be Western Gothic. But
his greatest work was the Glossarium Suiogothicum, which
took him fully seventeen years to complete, from 1752
till 1769. In his etymology he preferred to go back to
the Icelandic and the Mæsogothic.1
Another great linguist was Magnus Rönnow, or Dublar,
as the family name really was. He was a son of the
above-named Dean; he was born in 1665, studied at Lund
and Copenhagen, and, being of a restless disposition, set
out for a journey through Germany. In Hamburg he met
with a learned Jew named Esdras Edzardus, who
introduced him to the study of the Talmud, a study which he
continued with great diligence at Wittenberg. It was
1 Ihre had been promised the pecuniary support of the Government if
his great Dictionary was completed by 1763. At the Diet of 1766 this
support was nearly withdrawn, the conditions not being fulfilled. But
good sense finally triumphed. See Illustrerad Svensk Litteraturhistoria,
ii.1 212 ff. Hire’s second wife was of Scottish extraction also : she was
the daughter of Colonel Albr. Gerner.
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