Felix Markham

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Felix Maurice Hippisley Markham (* 1908 in Brighton ; † 1992 ) was a British historian , best known for his biography of Napoleon Bonaparte .

Life

Markham studied at Oxford University and taught there for 40 years. He was a Fellow and History Tutor at Hertford College , Oxford from 1931 to 1973 .

Fonts

  • Napoleon, New American Library 1963, reissued by Steve Englund, Signet Classics 2010
  • Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe, English Universities Press 1954, Collier Books 1965
  • The Bonapartes, New York, Taplinger Publ 1975
  • Editor: Henri Comte de Saint-Simon, 1760–1825: Selected Writings, Blackwell 1952
  • The Napoleonic Adventure, in The New Cambridge Modern History , Volume 9, 1965
  • Oxford, London 1975, foreword by CM Bowra

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Footnote in Isaiah Berlin Flourishing Letters 1928-1946 , Chatto and Windus 2004
personal data
SURNAME Markham, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Markham, Felix Maurice Hippisley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Brighton
DATE OF DEATH 1992