Antedating of "Pseudonym"

[Fred Shapiro]

pseudonym (OED 1833)

1830 _Amer. Jrnl. Education_ May 188 ff. (American Periodical Series)  His
Christian name, Jean Paul, which long passed for some freak of his own,
and a pseudonym, he seems to have derived honestly enough, from his
maternal grandfather, Johann Paul Kuhn.

Fred Shapiro


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