Joshua Barnes

Joshua Barnes
Born10 January 1654 
Died3 August 1712  (aged 58)
OccupationClassical scholar, antiquarian 
Position heldRegius Professor of Greek (1675–1712) 

Joshua Barnes FRS (10 January 1654 – 3 August 1712), was an English scholar. His work Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675) was an Utopian romance.

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