Edmund Backhouse
Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (born October 20, 1873 in Darlington , Durham , † January 8, 1944 in Beijing ) was a British Oriental scholar and linguist . He significantly influenced the way the western world viewed the last decades of the Qing Dynasty . However, modern historiography has shown that most of its sources were forged.
Backhouse came from a Quaker family in Darlington . Among his relatives are a number of churchmen and scholars. Backhouse himself attended Winchester College and Merton College in Oxford. But he had not finished his studies when he fled Great Britain in 1895 because of high debt. From 1902 to 1913 he was a professor at Peking University .
He was a member of the US National Geographic Society . In recognition of his research, he was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts .
In 1918, on the death of his father, Sir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Baronet, he had the title of Baronet , of Uplands in the Borough of Darlington in the County Palatine of Durham and of The Rookery in the Parish of Middleton Tyas in the North Riding of the County of York , which was bestowed on March 6, 1901 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. When he died unmarried and childless in 1944, the title of nobility fell to his nephew John Edmund Backhouse (1909–1944) as 3rd Baronet.
literature
- Hugh Trevor-Roper : A Hidden Life. The Enigma of Sir Edmund Backhouse . Macmillan, London et al. 1976, ISBN 0-333-19883-2 , (American edition under the title: The Hermit of Peking. The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse . AA Knopf, New York NY ISBN 0-394-41104-8 ) .
Web links
- Literature by and about Edmund Backhouse in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Bt. On thepeerage.com
Individual evidence
- ^ The London Gazette : No. 11283, p. 278 , March 8, 1901.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Backhouse, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Backhouse, Sir Edmund Trelawny, 2nd Baronet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British oriental scholar and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darlington , Durham |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1944 |
| Place of death | Beijing |