Alexander Allen (23 September 1814 – 6 November 1842) was an English writer and linguist who specialised in studies of Greece.
Allen obtained, in 1840, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Leipzig.
In the dedication of his Analysis of Latin Verbs to Thomas Hewitt Key, he mentions that many of his philological principles were derived from Key; he also acknowledges, in his ‘Essay on Teaching Greek,’ his obligations to his friend William Wittich, teacher of German in University College, London.
In the last years of his life he paid attention to Anglo-Saxon, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, and German languages, with a view to a comprehensive work on the history and structure of the English language.
I of the ‘Papers of the Central Society of Education;’ an Essay on writing Latin and Greek Exercises, in No.