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Alfred Trübner Nutt
1856–1910
A key figure in late Victorian folklore studies, this English publisher and scholar helped bring Celtic mythology and Arthurian legend to a wider audience. His work joined careful scholarship with a genuine enthusiasm for old stories and traditions.
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About the author
Born in London on 22 November 1856, Alfred Trübner Nutt grew up in a publishing family and later took over the firm of David Nutt. Alongside his work as a publisher, he became known as a folklorist and a scholar of Arthurian literature and Celtic studies.
He played an important part in the development of folklore as a serious field of study, writing and editing works on myth, legend, and tradition. He is especially remembered for his studies of the Grail legend and Celtic material, and for supporting learned publishing that connected British readers with wider European scholarship.
Nutt died on 21 May 1910. Though not as widely known today as some of the writers he published or studied, he remains an important link between the world of bookselling and the growing academic study of folklore, myth, and medieval literature.