Author:John Bowring

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John Bowring (1792–1872)

An English political economist, traveller, miscellaneous writer and polyglot, and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong.

John Bowring

Works

• Watchman, Tell Us of the Night (1825)
• Specimens of the Russian Poets (1821–1823)
  • God (Derzhavin)
• Peter Schlemihl, a German Story (Translation, 1824)
• Batavian Anthology (1824)
• Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824)
• Hymns (Privately published, 1825) This includes the hymn, In the cross of Christ I glory, still used in many churches.
• Specimens of the Polish Poets (1827)
• Serbian Popular Poetry (1827)
• Poetry of the Magyars (1830)
• Cheskian Anthology (1832)
• Bentham's Deontology (Editor, 1834). Volume I, Volume II
• Minor Morals (1834)
• Manuscript of the Queen's Court (1843)
• The Decimal System in Numbers, Coins and Accounts (1854)
• The Kingdom and People of Siam (1857)
• Translations from Hungarian poet Alexander Petofi (1866)

Works about Bowring

• “Bowring, Sir John” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910. in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (1910)
• “Bowring, John,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• Bowring, Sir John, in EB1911

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.