Osborn Bergin

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Osborn Joseph Bergin (25 November 1873 – 6 October 1950) was a scholar of the Irish language and Early Irish literature. He was born in Cork and was educated at Queen's College Cork (now University College Cork), then went to Germany for advanced studies in Celtic languages, working with Heinrich Zimmer at the Frierich Wilhelm University of Berlin (now the Humboldt University of Berlin) and later with Rudolf Thurneysen at the University of Freiburg, where he wrote his dissertation on palatalization in 1906. He then returned to Ireland and taught at the School of Irish Learning and at University College Dublin. He died in Dublin at the age of 76.

He published extensively in the journal for Irish scholarship, Ériu.

He is celebrated in Brian O'Nolan's poem Binchy and Bergin and Best, originally printed in the Cruskeen Lawn column in the Irish Times and now included in The Best of Myles.