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Cornelius Beach Bradley (November 18, 1843 – February 18, 1936) was an American English-language scholar. He served as professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley (then called the University of California), and also extensively studied the Thai language.

Bradley was born and grew up in Siam, the son of missionary Dan Beach Bradley, and also did missionary work in the country after graduating from Oberlin College in the United States. He returned to the United States in 1874, becoming a teacher and vice-principal at Oakland High School, before joining the faculty of the University of California in 1882. He was also known for mountaineering, especially in the Sierra Nevada.

Bradley was the father of Harold Cornelius Bradley, a professor of biochemistry at UW-Madison, and grandfather of Charles C. Bradley, a professor of geology at Montana State College.

Thai language research

Bradley was a first language speaker of Thai and did some of the earliest linguistic analysis of the language, including studies of its tones, vowels, and writing system.

References

1. University of California (System) Academic Senate (1937). "Cornelius Beach Bradley, English: Berkeley". University of California: In Memoriam, 1935-1936. University of California. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
2. "OLDEST U. C. PROFESSOR DIES". Oakland Tribune. 18 February 1936.
3. Bradley, Cornelius Beach (1909). "Graphical Analysis of the Siamese 'tones'". Proceedings of the Forty-First Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association Held at Baltimore, Maryland, December, 1909 Also of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast Held at San Francisco, California November, 1909. 40: xci–xcvii. doi:10.2307/282632. JSTOR 282632.
4. Bradley, Cornelius Beach (1911). "Graphic Analysis of the Tone-Accents of the Siamese Language". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 31 (3): 282–289. doi:10.2307/3087645. JSTOR 3087645.
5. Bradley, Cornelius Beach (1903). "The Siamese Vowels and Diphthongs". Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association Held at New Haven, Conn., July, 1903 Also of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast Held at San Francisco, Cal., Dec., 1902. 34: lxxi–lxxii. doi:10.2307/282604. JSTOR 282604.
6. Bradley, Cornelius Beach (1912). "The Proximate Source of the Siamese Alphabet". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 43: 23–33. doi:10.2307/282748. JSTOR 282748.
7. Bradley, Cornelius Beach (1917). "The History of the Sukhothai Letters". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 48: 63–72. doi:10.2307/282782. JSTOR 282782.
8. Bradley, Cornelius Beach (October 1924). "Some Features of the Siamese Speech and Writing". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 56 (S1): 11–31. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00150579. S2CID 162292639.

• American academics of English literature
• Thai studies scholars
• Protestant missionaries in Thailand
• University of California, Berkeley faculty
• People from Bangkok
• 1843 births
• 1936 deaths
• Oberlin College alumni