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)

Notae

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