Robert Nisbet Bain

Robert Nisbet Bain (1854–1909) was a British historian and linguist who worked for the British Museum.

Life Bain was born in London in 1854 to David and Elizabeth (born Cowan) Bain. His contributions were biographies and varied from Andrew Aagensen to Aleksander Wielopolski. He taught himself Hungarian so that he could read Mór Jókai in the original after first reading him in German. He translated from Finnish, Danish, and Russian and also tackled Turkish authors via Hungarian. He was the most prolific translator into English from Hungarian in the nineteenth century. He married late and died young after publishing a wide range of literature from or about Europe. Mór Jókai: Egy Magyar Nábob, 1850; engl. A Hungarian Nabob, New York : DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1899 The Day of Wrath The Poor Plutocrats Midst the Wild Carpathians The Slaves of the Padishah Halil the Pedlar The Lion of Janina Pretty Michal Eyes Like the Sea Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie: Weird Tales from Northern Seas