Stephens

Stephens, GEORGE, archaeologist, was born in Liverpool, December 13, 1813, and was educated in University College, London. He settled early at Stockholm, and was appointed in 1851 lector, later professor, of English in the university of Copenhagen. His works are numerous and learned, the most important his magnificent Old Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England (3 vols. 1866-68-84), and its abridgment, containing, however, all the engravings and translations (1884). Other works are on the Ruthwell Cross (1868), on Bugge's Studies in Northern Mythology (1883), and his early translation into English of Tegner's Frithiof (Stockholm, 1841). He died 13th August 1895.