and three American languages; and acquired considerable knowledge of Peruvian, Surinam Creole, Chippeway, and Berber. His last undertaking for the society was the revision of the Modern Greek Psalter as it went through the press. He also projected a grammar in thirty languages, but in the midst of his labours he was struck down by brain fever, dying at Islington on 5 November 1831. He left a widow and five children, on whose behalf a subscription was opened His portrait by Hayter was engraved by Holl. Greenfield was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Works The book of Genesis in English-Hebrew … with notes, &c., by … [W. Greenfield], 8vo, London, 1828; & 8vo, London, 1831. New Testament, Greek, 16mo, London, 1829. The Polymicrian Greek Lexicon to the New Testament, &c., 16mo, London, 1829 (new edition as A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament, revised by T. S. Green, 8vo, London, 1849 ; other editions in 1870 and 1885). Novi Testamenti Græci Ταμείον,’ … Ex opera E. Schmidii … depromptum a Gulielmo Greenfield, Greek, 16mo, London, 1830. A Defence of the Surinam Negro-English Version of the New Testament, 1830 New Testament, Greek and Hebrew, translated into Hebrew by W. Greenfield, 8vo, London, 1831 (with the Hebrew translation only, 16mo, London [1831]). The Hebrew version was also included in Samuel Lee's Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, fol. London, 1831. References External links 1799 births 1831 deaths English philologists Writers from London English religious writers 19th-century English non-fiction writers