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F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
1858–1936
A wide-ranging scholar of classics, religion, and social thought, he wrote accessible books that helped introduce comparative religion to English-speaking readers. His work moves easily between ancient texts, big ideas, and the questions ordinary people were asking at the turn of the 20th century.
4 Audiobooks
Anthropology and the Classics Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford
by Sir Arthur Evans, W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler, F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, Sir John Linton Myres
An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion
by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
The Idea of God in Early Religions
by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
Evolution
by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
About the author
Frank Byron Jevons (1858–1936) was a British scholar and university administrator whose interests ranged across classics, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and the history of religion. He studied at Wadham College, Oxford, and spent much of his career at Durham, where he taught classics and later served in senior academic roles.
He became especially known for writing about comparative religion in a style aimed at educated general readers as well as students. Books such as An Introduction to the History of Religion, The Idea of God in Early Religions, and Comparative Religion helped make a growing field of study more approachable at a time when scholars were trying to understand religion through history, ritual, and social life.
Jevons is often remembered as a true polymath: a serious academic who also wrote with breadth and curiosity. For audiobook listeners, he offers a window into how late Victorian and early 20th-century thinkers tried to connect the ancient world with modern questions about belief, culture, and human society.