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James Sime FRSE (1843–1895) was a Scottish biologist, literary critic, and historian. LifeJames Sime of Airdrie, and then of Wick, Caithness and Thurso, and his wife Jane Anderson of Glasgow (died 1889). He was educated at Anderson's Gymnasium, Aberdeen, leaving in 1859 for Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A. in 1867. In 1866, rather than entering the ministry, he went to Germany, and studied German literature and philosophy, first at Heidelberg University, and then at Berlin University.[1] Sime returned to Britain and settled in London's Norland Square in the Notting Hill district in 1869, and went into journalism. In 1870 he went to Edinburgh and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Philip Kelland.[2] In 1871 he took a mastership at Edinburgh Academy, but resigned in 1873 and returned to London. He was a writer for the rest of his life, in areas including social and educational topics, and European politics. As a journalist he worked on The Globe, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the St. James's Gazette under Frederick Greenwood. He contributed to The Athenæum, Saturday Review, and the English Illustrated Magazine. He wrote long-term for The Graphic and Daily Graphic, and for some time was on the staff of Nature magazine.[1] From 1880 Sime lived in Bedford Park, London, at 1 Queen Anne's Grove, in a house which he had commissioned. He died there of influenza, on 20 March 1895, and was buried at Hampstead Cemetery.[1] WorksSime's published works were:[1]
He also edited Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm, 1877, and wrote articles dealing with German history, literature, and biography (including Frederick II and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition.[1][3] FamilySime married, on 6 October 1865, Jessie Aitken Wilson, youngest sister of Sir Daniel Wilson, who was professor of History and English Literature at the University of Toronto, and of George Wilson of Edinburgh University. Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite DNB|wstitle=Sime, James|volume=52}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 3. ^Important Contributors to the Britannica, 9th and 10th Editions, 1902encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 17 April 2017. External links
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