John Bossy

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John Antony Bossy (born April 30, 1933 in Edmonton , † October 23, 2015 ) was a British historian .

Life

John Bossy was born in 1933 in Edmonton, north of London , to a Roman Catholic family and grew up with siblings. He attended the college of St. Ignatius , a Jesuit school in Stamford Hill , and later studied at Queens' College of the University of Cambridge . There he was taught by the historian Walter Ullman , who had a formative influence on him. After Bossy had completed his national service from 1954 to 1956 , he returned to the University of Cambridge and received his doctorate in 1961. The subject of his dissertation was the relationship between Elizabethan Catholics and France.

From 1962 to 1966 he worked at Goldsmiths, University of London . He then moved to Queen's University Belfast , where he worked from 1966 to 1978. He spent his further academic career at the University of York , where he taught as a professor and was retired in 2000 .

Bossy was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1993 . His book Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair received the 1991 Dagger Award of the Crime Writers' Association in the category "Best Nonfiction Book in Crime Fiction " ( Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction ), and in 1992 the Wolfson History Prize of the Wolfson Foundation .

Publications (selection)

  • The English Catholic Community, 1570-1850 (1975)
  • (Ed.): Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West (1983)
  • Christianity in the West, 1400--1700 (1985)
  • Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair (1991, Yale University Press, New Haven; Ger .: Agent der Königin , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995)
  • Peace in the Post-Reformation (1998)
  • Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story (2001)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winner of the Wolfson History Prize ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Wolfson Foundation website  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wolfson.org.uk
personal data
SURNAME Bossy, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bossy, John Antony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2015