Author talk:William Bell (1789-1868)

Biography
William Bell was the son of the prominent auctioneer William Bell (d. 1824) and his wife Jane, of Hull. His sister Elizabeth married John Leake and moved with him to Australia. Bell was at first a merchant in Hull.

Bell published "The Stream of Time", an adaptation/translation of a work by Strass, in 1810. Shortly thereafter he published a collection of German poems. He received his PhD abroad (probably in Germany) and joined a number of academic societies in the linguistic, historical, anthropological, archaelological, geographical, etc. fields. He published a number of books listed on this author page. He eventually became the administrator of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. He lived in London. He died at a conference in Bonn in 1868.

—Beleg Tâl (talk) 20:30, 21 February 2020 (UTC)