Daniel Hall

Daniel George Edward Hall (often also DGE Hall; born November 17, 1891 in Hertfordshire , England ; † October 12, 1979 in Hitchen, Great Britain ) was a historian who worked mainly on Southeast Asia .

DGE Hall (1891–1979)

Life

Hall came from a farming family and received his early education at Hitchin Grammar School. In 1913 he went to King's College , London, and in 1916 graduated with a first-class degree in history, which earned him the Gladstone Memorial Prize. In 1919 he got a position as a history teacher at the Royal Grammar School in Worcester . In the same year he married Helen Eugenie Banks, who had also studied at King's College and received the Gladstone Prize. He then went to Bedales School in Hampshire .

A little later, Hall received an appointment to the chair of history at the newly established University of Rangoon . He accepted and upon his arrival in May 1921 had to realize that the program, with its focus on classical antiquity, was unsuitable for the university. He therefore began developing courses and writing textbooks on regional history. During this work his interest in Burmese culture and Asian history began.

In 1927 he published the first work on English-Burmese relations between 1587 and 1686 ( English Relations with Burma 1587-1686 ), which appeared in the Journal of the Burma Research Society . In the meantime he received his doctorate in literature from the University of London. In 1934 he had to return to England with his family, who suffered from conjunctivitis . There he took a position as director of the Caterham School in Surrey . In 1949 he was appointed to the Chair of Southeast Asian History at the University of London . Here he published his major work History of South-East Asia in 1955 . In September 1959 Hall accepted a visiting professorship at Cornell University and returned to England in 1973, where he published a biography of Henry Burney a little later .

Daniel Hall died on October 12, 1979 in Hitchen.

Fonts

• A Professorship of Far Eastern History . JBRS 1922
• A Brief Survey of English Constitutional History . London: Harrap 1925.
• English Relations with Burma, 1587-1686 . Journal of the Burma Research Society 1927.
• Early English Intercourse with Burma, 1587-1743 . Rangoon University Publ. 1928.
• A High School British History, 1714-1930, for Burma, India and the East . Oxford Univ. Press 1935.
• Europe and Burma: a study of European relations with Burma to the annexation of Thibaw's kingdom 1886 . London: Oxford Univ. Press 1945.
• Burma . London: Hutchinson's 1950.
• A History of South-East Asia . London: Macmillan 1955.
• Michael Symes, Journal of his second embassy to the court of Ava in 1802 . London: George Allen and Unwin 1955.
• Henry Burney. A Political Biography . London: Oxford Univ. Press 1974.