Francis Palgrave
Sir Francis Palgrave (* July 1788 in London as Francis Ephraim Cohen , † July 6, 1861 ibid) was a British historian .
Live and act
When he married in 1823 , he converted from Judaism to Christianity and took the name of his mother-in-law, Palgrave . From 1827 he was appointed administrator in the House of Lords for several years . He worked in particular on English and Norman history. In 1832 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor and as a Knight of the Guelph Order . In 1834 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Employed at the state archives since 1836, he became their director in 1838 and remained in this position until the end of his life. Since 1836 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
family
Palgrave and his wife had four sons:
- Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), literary critic, poet and long-time Oxford Professor of Poetry
- William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), traveler to the Orient and diplomat
- Inglis Palgrave (1827-1919), economist
- Reginald Palgrave (1829–1904), lawyer and politician
Works
He wrote a number of historical works and contributed articles to various English magazines. His published after his death, collected historical works ( The collected historical works of Sir Francis Palgrave, KH ): v. 1-4. History of Normandy and of England ; v. 5. History of the Anglo-Saxons ; v. 6-7. Rise and progress of the English Commonwealth, Anglo-Saxon period ; v. 8. Truths and fictions of the Middle Ages ; v. 9-10. Reviews, essays and other writings .
Probably his best known work is The Merchant and the Friar ( The Merchant and the Monk ), which depicts a (fictional) encounter between the merchant Marco Polo and the monk Roger Bacon in London.
Individual evidence
- ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 333.
- ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 468.
- ^ Truths and Fictions of the Middle Ages ( digitized version ); see. The Monthly Review . Vol. I (1838), No. I, p. 406 ff. Online
literature
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. IV, pp. 599–600, Czernowitz 1930.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palgrave, Francis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cohen, Sir Francis Ephraim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1861 |
| Place of death | London |