Adolphus William Ward
Sir Adolphus William Ward (born December 2, 1837 in Hampstead , † June 19, 1924 in Cambridge ) was a British historian and literary historian.
life and work
Ward was the second son of the diplomat John Ward (1805-1890), who went to Leipzig as consul in 1841 , where Ward first attended school. A lifelong interest in Germany also began there. At the age of 16 he was sent to the Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds . He studied in from 1855 at Peterhouse College of Cambridge University with top marks in the Classical Exams of the Tripos in 1859. He received his MA in 1862 and became a fellow of Peterhouse College. He also studied law at the Inner Temple (from 1860) and was admitted to the bar in 1866 ( called to the bar ), but never practiced. He was briefly a lecturer at Peterhouse College and assistant to Professor George Gilbert Ramsay (1839-1921) at the University of Glasgow , before he was Professor of History and English Literature at Owens College in Manchester in 1866 , where he was 1889 until his retirement in 1897 Was principal. He then moved to London. In 1898 he held the Ford Lectures at Oxford University .
In 1900 his old college in Cambridge (Peterhouse) appointed him for a master’s degree and in 1901 he also became Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University.
He was involved in the founding of Victoria University in Manchester in 1880 (to which Owens College belonged) and from 1886 to 1890 and from 1894 to 1896 he was its vice-chancellor. In 1897 he became an honorary citizen of Manchester. He was a multiple examiner for the Tripos History (and Law) exams at Cambridge and English and History at the University of London.
Ward had a very good reputation as a teacher and founded a history school in Manchester.
He wrote an English literary history, which at that time mainly established his reputation, and wrote, among other things, about the succession to the throne of the Hanoverian Guelphs in Great Britain from George I , threaded by his mother Sophie von der Pfalz , and a German story. He was an admirer of the German School of Historians, especially Leopold von Ranke, and like the latter concentrated on the political history of states.
In 1913 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor . From 1899 to 1901 he was President of the Royal Historical Society and from 1911 to 1913 of the British Academy . In 1913 he was President of the International Congress of Historians in London.
From 1901 to 1912 he was the managing editor of The Cambridge Modern History in collaboration with George Walter Prothero and Stanley Leathes , after the old editor Lord Acton died in 1902. He wrote chapters on the Thirty Years War for the Cambridge Modern History. 1907 to 1916 he published the Cambridge History of English Literature with Alfred Rayney Waller (1867-1922). Since its inception in 1886, he has contributed many book reviews to the English Historical Review . He was also a theater critic for the Manchester Guardian for many years .
He translated the history of Greece by Ernst Curtius (History of Greece, 5 volumes, Scribner, 1868–1873).
He was honorary doctor from Glasgow, Manchester, St. Andrews and Leipzig. In 1911 he received the Order of the Crown .
In 1879 he married his cousin Adelaide Laura Lancaster, whose father was school principal in Grittleton . His daughter Adelaide married EW Barnes in 1879, later Bishop of Birmingham.
He is in Cherry Hinton Cemetery in Cambridge. He bequeathed his extensive library especially on German history to Peterhouse College. The student library (undergraduates) is named after him there.
Fonts
- The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War. Two Lectures, with Notes and Illustrations. Macmillan London 1869, digitized .
- History of English Dramatic Literature to the Age of Queen Anne. 2 volumes. Macmillan, London 1875, digitized volume 1 , digitized volume 2 , (New and revised edition. Three volumes. Macmillan, London et al. 1899, digitized volume 1 , digitalized volume 2 , digitalized volume 3 ).
- Chaucer (= English Men of Letters. ). Macmillan, London 1879, digitized .
- Dickens (= English Men of Letters. ). Macmillan, London 1882, digitized .
- The Counter Reformation. Longmans, Green and Company 1889, digitized .
- Sir Henry Wotton. A Biographical Sketch. A. Constable, Westminster 1898, digitized .
- Great Britain & Hanover. Some Aspects of the Personal Union (= The Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford. 1899, ZDB -ID 420177-2 ). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1899, digitized , (In German: Gross-Britannien und Hannover. Reflections on the personal union. Lectures given at the University of Oxford. Translated by Kaethe Woltereck. Hahn, Hannover et al. 1906).
- The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession. Goupil, London et al. 1903, (2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Longmans, Green, & Co., London 1909, digitized ).
- Leibniz as a Politician (= The Adamson Lecture. 1910, ZDB -ID 1114425-7 = Manchester University Lecture. No. 12, ZDB -ID 444742-6 ). Manchester University Press, Manchester 1911, digitized .
- Germany 1815-1890 (= Cambridge Historical Series. 8). 3 volumes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1916–1918, (the third volume in the epilogue goes to 1907);
- Collected papers. Historical, Literary, Travel and Miscellaneous. 5 volumes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1921, digitized volume 1 ; Digitized volume 2 ; Digitized volume 3 ; Digitized volume 4 ; Digitized volume 5 .
- as editor with George P. Gooch : The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy 1783-1919. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1922–1923, (with contributions by Ward on the Schleswig-Holstein question, where he was able to fall back on his father's notes, and on the Greek struggle for independence, for which he had previously interviewed contemporary witnesses in Athens);
In 1905/06 he edited the poems of George Crabbe and in 1869 those of Alexander Pope . He also edited works by Christopher Marlowe , Robert Greene and Thomas Heywood († 1641). Ward wrote the articles Drama, Ben Jonson, and About Other Playwrights in the Encyclopedia Britannica (9th and 11th editions) and many articles in the Dictionary of National Biography .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ward, Adolphus William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hampstead (London) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1924 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |