Alexander Gill Mai Girma

Alexander Gil the Elder (7 Fabrairu 1565 - 17 Nuwamba 1635), wanda aka fi sani da Gil, masanin Ingilishi ne, mai gyara rubutun kalmomi, kuma babban malamin Makarantar St Paul, inda ɗalibansa suka haɗa da John Milton . Shi ne marubucin harshen Ingilishi, wanda aka rubuta, duk da haka, a cikin Latin.

 Rayuwa 
An haife shi a Lincolnshire 7 Fabrairu 1565, an shigar da shi a matsayin masanin Kwalejin Corpus Christi, Oxford, a watan Satumba na shekara ta 1583, kuma ya sami BA a shekara ta 1586 da MA a shekara ta 1589. Wood ya yi imanin cewa shi malamin makaranta ne a Norwich, inda yake zaune a shekara ta 1597. A ranar 10 ga Maris 1607-8 an nada shi babban malamin makarantar St. Paul, wanda ya gaji Richard Mulcaster. Milton yana daga cikin ɗalibansa daga 1620 zuwa 1625.

Yana da 'ya'ya maza biyu, George da Alexander (an haife shi a shekara ta 1597), da kuma 'yar, Annah . George Gill zai zama mai tsarki.

A shekara ta 1628, an ji ɗansa Alexander yana shan giya ga lafiyar John Felton, wanda ya soke George Villiers, Duke na 1 na Buckingham. Buckingham ya kasance ƙaunataccen Sarki Charles I, amma jama'a sun ƙi shi. An yaba wa Felton sosai a matsayin jarumi don kashe shi. An yanke wa Gill the Younger hukuncin cire kunnuwa biyu kuma an ci tarar £ 2,000. Koyaya, mahaifinsa ya shiga tsakani kai tsaye tare da William Laud. Wannan ƙoƙari ya sami raguwar hukuncin da Star Chamber ta yi. Alexander Gill the Younger daga baya zai zama sanannen malami a kansa.

 Mutuwa 
Gill the Elder ya mutu a gidansa a St. Paul's Churchyard 17 Nuwamba 1635, kuma an binne shi 20 Nuwamba a cikin Mercers' Chapel . Matarsa, Elizabeth ce ta mutu.

 Ayyuka 

 Harshen harshe 
Logonomia Anglica, qua gentis sermo facilius addiscitur, London, by John Beale, 1619, 2nd edita. 1621, shi ne harshen Ingilishi da aka keɓe ga littafin James I. Gill, wanda aka rubuta a cikin Latin, ya buɗe tare da shawarwari don tsarin sauti na rubutun Ingilishi (duba ƙasa). A cikin sashi na al'ada da maganganu Gill ya nakalto kyauta daga Edmund Spenser, George Wither, Samuel Daniel, da sauran mawaƙa na Ingilishi. Ya fi cikakkun bayanai fiye da ayyukan da suka gabata, kuma ya mai da hankali ga haɗin kai da prosody. Otto Luitpold Jiriczek ne ya samar da wani bugu a shekara ta 1903;  an buga facsimile na fitowar 1619 a shekara ta 1972.