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F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
1858–1936
A Victorian-era scholar with an unusually wide range, he wrote about classics, anthropology, sociology, and the history of religion. His books helped bring comparative religion to a broader English-speaking audience in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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
The Idea of God in Early Religions
by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion
by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
Evolution
by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
About the author
Born in 1858, Frank Byron Jevons was a British scholar and university administrator whose work crossed several fields, including classics, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and religious history. He studied at Nottingham High School and Wadham College, Oxford, and spent much of his career at Durham, where he taught classics before moving into senior academic leadership.
Jevons became especially known for writing about comparative religion at a time when that field was taking shape for modern readers. Works such as Introduction to the History of Religion, Comparative Religion, and The Idea of God in Early Religions show his interest in how beliefs, myths, and rituals developed across cultures. He also wrote on ancient religion, magic, and social questions, giving his work a broad, curious spirit.
He died in 1936. Today he is remembered less as a specialist in one narrow subject than as a gifted all-around thinker whose books opened complex ideas to general readers as well as students.