Iacobus Georgius Frazer

Iacobus Georgius Frazer

Iacobus Georgius Frazer (natus die 1 Ianuarii 1854 Glasgoviae; mortuus Cantabrigiae die 7 Maii 1941) fuit anthropologus inter studiosis religionum et mythologiarum praeclarus. Opus eius latissime notum The Golden Bough ("de ramo aureo") anno 1890 primum edidit; annis autem 1911–1915 tertiam editionem in duodecim voluminibus digestam divulgavit.

Frazer fuit universitatum Glasguensis et Cantabrigiensis alumnus; hic apud Collegium Sancti Trinitatis socius fuit usque ad mortem.

Opera

Monographiae

• 1887 Totemism (opus postea in Totemism and Exogamy inclusum)
• 1890 The Golden Bough: a study in magic and religion ed. 1a. 2 voll. (ed. 2a: 3 voll.: 1900; ed. 3a: 12 voll.: 1911-1915)
• 1905 Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship (postea titulo The Magical Origin of Kings reimpressum)
• 1906 Adonis Attis Osiris: studies in the history of Oriental religion ed. 1a (ed. 2a: 1907; ed. 3a in The Golden Bough inclusa, 1914)
• 1908 The Scope of Social Anthropology
• 1909 Psyche's Task ed. 1a (2a ed. 1913; opus postea titulo The Devil's Advocate reimpressum)
• 1910 Totemism and Exogamy (1910)
• 1913-1924 The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead. 3 voll.
• 1918 Folk-lore in the Old Testament
• 1923 Sur Ernest Renan
• 1926 The Worship of Nature vol. 1
• 1930 Myths of the Origin of Fire
• 1879 The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory (dissertatio anno 1879 scripta)
• 1933 Condorcet on the Progress of the Human Mind
• 1933 The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion

Commentationes collectae

• 1920 Sir Roger de Coverley and other literary pieces, cuius caput XV "Ad libellum suum auctor" latine scriptus est.
• 1924 Sir James George Frazer: selected passages from his works ed. Georges Roth
• 1927 The Gorgon's Head and other Literary Pieces
• 1927 Man, God, and Immortality
• 1931 Garnered Sheaves
• 1935 Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogenies, and other pieces

Editiones et versiones

• 1895 Passages of the Bible: chosen for their literary beauty and interest
• 1898 Pausanias's Description of Greece. 6 voll.
• 1912 Letters of William Cowper
• 1915 Essays of Joseph Addison
• 1921 Apollodorus: The Library. 2 voll. (Loeb Classical Library)
• 1929 Publii Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri sex. 5 voll.
• 1931 Ovid's Fasti (editio minor: Loeb Classical Library)

Bibliographia

• "Frazer, James George" in J. et J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses. 10 voll. (Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 1922–1958) recensio interretialis
• Robert Ackerman, J. G. Frazer: his life and work. Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-521-39825-8
• Robert Ackerman, The Myth and Ritual School: J. G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists. 2002. ISBN 0-415-93963-1
• Theodore Besterman, A Bibliography of Sir James George Frazer O.M. Londinii: Macmillan, 1934
• Robert Fraser, The Making of The Golden Bough: The Origins and Growth of an Argument. Londinii: Macmillan, 1990

Nexus externi

• Vita I. G. Frazerapud Books & Writers
• Opera I. G. Frazer apud gutenberg.org
• Opera I. G. Frazer apud archive.org