Mark Pattison

Mark Pattison (born October 10, 1813 , † July 30, 1884 in Harrogate , Yorkshire ) was an English author ; he was the principal of Lincoln College , Oxford .

His father, who was the principal at Hauxwell, Yorkshire, taught him personally. In 1832 he enrolled at Oriel College , Oxford, where he graduated with a BA ( Bachelor of Arts ) in 1836. After several attempts, fellow of a college to be, he was in 1839 elected to Lincoln that an anti-this time puseyistisches College was - whereas Pattison under the strong influence of John Henry Newman , worked for it, Pusey adhered: his work for Newman concerned the translation of Thomas Aquinas Catena Aurea , as well as essays in British Critic and Christian Remembrancer .

He was ordained a priest in 1843 and a tutor at Lincoln College that same year , where he quickly gained a reputation as a good and personable teacher. The direction of the college was practically in his hands, his reputation as a scholar at the university high. In 1851 the rectorate of Lincoln became vacant and Pattison's election seemed certain - but he was pushed aside and his health deteriorated from that disappointment. In 1855 he resigned as a tutor, traveled to Germany to study educational systems on the European continent and began his research on the life of Isaac Casaubon (whose biography appeared in 1875) and Joseph Justus Scaliger , who occupied him for the rest of his life.

In 1861 he was elected rector of the Lincoln. In the same year he married Emilia Francis Strong , who later became Lady Dilke. As rector, he contributed much to literary subjects, but also showed considerable interest in social sciences, and even presided over a section at a congress in 1876. On the other hand, he avoided the routine of university administration and rejected the office of vice chancellor. In 1876 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He wrote about John Milton in the Macmillan's English Men of Letters series in 1879 . The 18th century, especially its literature and theology, was his preferred field of work, such as his contributions ( Tendencies of Religious Thought in England , 1688-1750) to his famous Essays and Reviews (1860) and his edition of Alexander Popes Essay on Man (1869) and others show. His Sermons and Collected Essays were edited posthumously by Henry Nettleship in 1889 , as was his Memoirs (1885), an autobiography deeply steeped in melancholy and bitterness. His project of a biography Scaliger ( Life ) he did not complete.

Mark Pattison was a scholar who lived only for the intellect . He wrote of himself, apologizing for the style of his memoir, that he knew little or nothing about current celebrities, and that his memory was imprecise. "All my energy was focused on only one thing - to improve myself, to develop my views, to examine things thoroughly, to free myself from the shackles of irrationality" ( Memoirs , pp. I, 2). His memoirs are a fairly morbid book in which Mark Pattison is consistently merciless with himself. It is obvious that he brought rationalism into religion to a degree that is hardly compatible with his position as priest of the Anglican Church .

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• Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614. 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892.