Richard Hakluyt

Richard Hakluyt (født i 1552 eller 1553, død 23. november 1616 i London) var en engelsk geograf, prest og forfatter.


== Liv og virke ==
Richard Hakluyt studerte i Oxford og innførte som professor i kosmografi bruken av globuser i englelsk skoleundervisning. 
Hakluyt var i 1583 som kapellan med den engelske sendemann sir Edward Stafford til Paris. Han ble i 1590 utnevnt til sogneprest i Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford i Suffolk og ble i 1603 valgt til erkedegn i Westminster Abbey.
Han viet sitt liv til studiet av de geografiske oppdagelsers historie og framla resultatet av sin forskning i flere arbeider, blant annet i Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) og hans hovedarbeide The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1598–1600; nytt opplag 1809–12).


== Oppkallelse ==
I 1846 ble Hakluyt Society stiftet i London. Dette selskapet utgir eldre reiseskildringer.


== Litteratur ==
Burrage, Henry S[weetser] (ed.) (1906). ... Early English and French Voyages, Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534–1608: With Maps and a Facsimile Reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Scribner's. CS1-vedlikehold: Ekstra tekst: forfatterliste (link)
Corbitt, David Leroy (ed.) (1948). Explorations, descriptions, and attempted settlements of Carolina, 1584–1590. Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History. CS1-vedlikehold: Ekstra tekst: forfatterliste (link)
Gray, Albert (1917). An Address on the Occasion of the Tercentenary of the Death of Richard Hakluyt, 23 November 1916: With a Note on the Hakluyt Family (OB4). London: Hakluyt Society. 
Hakluyt, Richard (1964). They Told Mr. Hakluyt: Being a Selection of Tales and Other Matter Taken from Richard Hakluyt's "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries of the English Nation", with Various Explanatory Notes by Frank Knight. London: Macmillan & Co. 
Hakluyt, Richard (1880s). Voyager's Tales, from the Collections of Richard Hakluyt. London: Cassell & Co. 
Lynam, E[dward] (William O'Flaherty) (ed.) (1946). Richard Hakluyt & His Successors: A Volume Issued to Commemorate the Centenary of the Hakluyt Society. London: Hakluyt Society. CS1-vedlikehold: Ekstra tekst: forfatterliste (link)
Mancall, Peter C. (2007). Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press. 
Markham, Clements R[obert] (1896). Richard Hakluyt: His Life and Work: With a Short Account of the Aims and Achievements of the Hakluyt Society: An Address, etc. (OB1). London: Hakluyt Society. 
Neville-Sington, P[amela] A. (1997). Richard Hakluyt and His Books: An Interim Census of Surviving Copies of Hakluyt's Divers Voyages and Principal Navigations. London: Hakluyt Society. ISBN 978-0-904180-56-5. 
Quinn, D[avid] B[eers] (ed.) (1974). The Hakluyt Handbook (Hakluyt Society; 2nd ser., no. 144). London: Hakluyt Society. ISBN 978-0-521-20211-4. CS1-vedlikehold: Ekstra tekst: forfatterliste (link) 2 vols.
A Reproduction of the Tablet Erected in Bristol Cathedral to the Memory of Richard Hakluyt Born 1522, Died 1616 (OB3). London: Hakluyt Society. 1911. 
Sir Walter Raleigh and Richard Hakluyt: An Exhibition Held in the King's Library, British Museum, July–September 1952. [London]: [British Museum]. 1952. 
Watson, Foster (1924). Richard Hakluyt. [S.l.]: The Sheldon Press. 


=== Nyhetsstoff ===
O'Toole, Fintan (10. mars 2007). «Virgin territories [review of Peter C. Mancall's Hakluyt's Promise]». The Guardian (Review). London. 
Porter, Henry (8. april 2007). «America's debt to a forgotten hero: As the 400th anniversary of Jamestown nears, its spiritual father is being unjustly ignored». The Observer. London. 
Bridges, Roy (15. april 2007). «Your letters: Hakluyt has not been forgotten». The Observer. London. 


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