Charles Oman

Charles Oman, photo from 1940.

Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman (born January 12, 1860 in the Muzzaffarpur district, Tirhut , India , † June 23, 1946 in Oxford ) was a British military historian focusing on the Middle Ages and the Napoleonic Wars .

Oman was the son of a plantation owner in India and studied at Oxford University with William Stubbs . From 1881 on he was a Fellow of All Souls College . In 1905 he became Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford as the successor to Montagu Burrows .

Oman is known as a military historian for its history of the Peninsular War and other contributions to Napoleonic military history. He also wrote much-noticed monographs on the reconstruction of warfare in the Middle Ages, as well as on warfare in the 16th century. But he also dealt with many other topics, such as ancient history, coins, castles in Wales and England.

He was a Conservative from 1919 to 1935 for Oxford University Member of the British Parliament .

In 1905 he became a fellow of the British Association and the British Academy . In 1936 he became an Honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford, and he received honorary doctorates from Oxford (1926), Edinburgh (1911) and Cambridge (1927). In 1920 he was ennobled ( KBE ). From 1917 to 1921 he was President of the Royal Historical Society and he was also President of the Numismatic Society and the Royal Archaeological Institute.

His daughter Carola Oman (1897–1978) was also a historian and wrote, among other things, a biography about Nelson . His son Charles Chicele Oman wrote about antiques, especially silver objects, and was a keeper of metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum .

He should not be confused with the economist Charles P. Oman (* 1948).

Fonts

• A history of the Art of War , Methuen 1898
• The Art of War in the Middle Ages 378-1515 , Oxford: Blackwell 1885
• A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great , 1888, 7th edition, Longmans, Green and Company 1900
• Warwick the Kingmaker , Macmillan 1891
• The Story of the Byzantine Empire , 1892, London: Unwin / New York: Putnam 1915
• The Dark Ages 476-918 , in the Periods of European History series , London: Rivingtons 1893, 6th edition 1919, 7th edition 1962
• A History of England , 1895, 2nd edition 1919
• A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages , London: Methuen, Volume 1 (378–1278), Volume 2 (1278–1485), 1898, 2nd edition 1924,
• Alfred as a Warrior , in Alfred Bowker (Ed.) Alfred The Great , London: AC Black 1899
• England in the Nineteenth Century , Longmans, Green and Company 1900
• History of the Peninsular War , Volumes 1-7, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902-1930
• Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Roman Republic: The Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, Cato, Pompey, Caesar , London: E. Arnold 1902
• England and the Hundred Years War, 1327–1485 AD , New York, Scribner's 1898, 1903 (The Oxford Manuals of British History, Volume 3)
• The Hundred Days, 1815 , in The Cambridge Modern History , Vol. IX, Napoleon , 1906
• The Great Revolt of 1381 , Oxford: Clarendon Press 1906, 1969
• The History of England from the Accession of Richard II. To the Death of Richard III. (1377–1485) , Volume 4 by William Hunt, Reginald Poole (Ed.) The Political History of England , Longmans, Green and Company 1906
• A History of England Before the Norman Conquest , London: Methuen 1910, 8th edition 1937 (Volume 1 by Charles Oman (Ed.) A History of England in Seven Volumes )
• Wellington's Army, 1809-1814 , Longmans, Green and Company 1912
• The Outbreak of the War of 1914-1918: A Narrative Based Mainly on British Official Documents , London: His Majesty's Stationary Office 1919
• The Unfortunate Colonel Despard & Other Studies , London: E. Arnold 1922
• British Castles , London 1926, Dover 1989
• The Duke of Wellington , in Hearnshaw (ed.) Political Principles of Some Notable Prime Ministers of the Nineteenth Century , 1926
• Studies in the Napoleonic Wars , London: Methuen 1929
• The Coinage of England , 1931, London 1967
• Things I Have Seen , London: Methuen 1933
• A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century , New York: EP Dutton 1937
• The Sixteenth century , London: Methuen 1936
• On the Writing of History , London: Methuen 1939
• Memories of Victorian Oxford and of Some Early Years , London: Methuen 1941
• The Lyons Mail: being an account of the crime of April 27, 1796 (Floréal 8 an IV) and of the trials which followed; a study of personalities and of evidence, as also of judicial procedure, under the first French republic. , London: Methuen 1945

Web links

Commons : Charles Oman  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Entries in Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford Companion to Military History
• Publications by Charles Oman in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 13, 2020 .