John Bagnell Bury
John Bagnell Bury (mostly short JB Bury ; born October 16, 1861 in County Monaghan , Ireland ; † June 1, 1927 in Rome ) was an important ancient historian , Byzantinist and classical philologist from Ireland .
Bury, son of an Anglican clergyman and brother of the classical philologist and philosophy historian Robert Gregg Bury , attended Foyle College in Derry and Trinity College in Dublin , where he also taught since 1885. In 1893 he became professor of modern history there, and from 1898 he also taught Greek . In 1902 he was appointed to the University of Cambridge , where he was the Regius Professor of Modern History , although he was mainly concerned with antiquity . In a lecture there in 1903 he declared: "History is a science, no more, no less" (history is a science, no more, no less). In 1902 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy . Since December 1896 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg .
Bury's sphere of activity spanned a broad spectrum: he re-edited Edward Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , edited works by Pindar , wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911 edition), was editor of the first edition of the Cambridge Ancient History and wrote several standard works such as A History of Greece , History of the Later Roman Empire (1889, 1923 in a newly designed edition) or The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians . He also dealt with the Byzantine Empire and the papacy, as well as with the philosophy of history. His work on late antiquity and the Byzantine Empire in particular still makes a significant contribution to the development of this epoch, especially in the area of the history of events, although the state of research is partly out of date.
literature
- Henry Boylan (Ed.): A Dictionary of Irish Biography. 3rd edition. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1999, ISBN 0-7171-2945-4 .
- Jan Louis van Dieten: Bury, John Bagnell . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 1. Munich 1974, p. 274 f.
- Robert B. Todd (Ed.): The Dictionary of British Classicists. Volume 1, Bristol 2004, pp. 132-135.
Web links
- Literature by and about John Bagnell Bury in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bury, John Bagnell . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
- Works available online
- Works in the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Bury, John Bagnell. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed May 11, 2020 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bury, John Bagnell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bury, John B .; Bury, JB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Anglo-Irish ancient historian and philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | County Monaghan , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1927 |
| Place of death | Rome |