Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner , (born March 4, 1829 in Ropley near Alresford , Hampshire , † February 23, 1902 in Sevenoaks ) was a British historian, known as an expert on the English Civil War , its pre- and post-history and Oliver Cromwell .
Gardiner attended Winchester College and studied humanistic subjects at Oxford University (Christ Church College). He taught from 1871 to 1885 (from 1875 as Professor of Modern History) at King's College London . In 1884 he became a Fellow of All Souls College and in 1892 of Merton College, but turned down the director's professorship at Oxford in 1894.
In 1896 he was the first Ford Lecturer in English History at Oxford.
From 1863 to 1900 he undertook intensive archive studies for his main works not only in England, but also in Simancas , Venice , Rome , Brussels and Paris , among others . In addition to his great history works on the 17th century in England, he also wrote many textbooks on English history. His detailed major works and document editions, written close to the sources, such as those on constitutional history during the Puritan Revolution, are still used today.
He edited several source volumes of the Camden Society and was editor of the English Historical Review from 1891 .
For several years he was a member of the Catholic Apostolic Congregation (Irvingite Church). In 1902 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was a fellow of the British Academy .
Fonts
His History of the English Civil War, London: Longmans, Green:
- The Fall of the Monarchy of Charles I, 1637–1649, 2 volumes, 1882
- History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603–1642, 10 volumes, 1883–1884, reprinted by AMS Press 1965
- History of the Great Civil War, 1642–1649, 3 volumes 1886, 4 volumes, 1893
- History of the commonwealth and protectorate, 1649–1656, 4 volumes, 1903
- Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 3 Suppl. , Volume 4
The last years of the protectorate 1656-1658 , begun by him, were completed by Charles Harding Firth (CH Firth) and published in 1909.
Other works
- The first two Stuarts and the Puritan revolution, 1603-1660 , Longmans, Green 1886, Archive
- Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage , 2 volumes, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1869, volume 1
- Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 , Oxford, 1889, 2nd edition 1899, Archives
- The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 , Scribner's 1887, Archives
- Oliver Cromwell , London: Longmans, Green 1901, Archives
- What the Gunpowder Plot was , London: Longmans, Green 1897
- Outline of English History , London 1887, 2nd edition 1896
- Student's History of England , 2 volumes, London, 1890/91, many editions, 1920 in 3 volumes, archives
- Introduction to the study of English History , London, C. Kegan Paul 1881, Archives
- Cromwell's place in history , Longmans, Green, 3rd edition 1897 (Oxford lectures), Archives
- Publisher: Parliamentary debates in 1610 ; Camden Society 1862, Archives
- Editor: The Hamilton papers: being selections from original letters in the possession of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, relating to the years 1638-1650 , Camden Society 1880
- Letters and papers relating to the first Dutch War, 1652-1654, 6 volumes, Navy Records Society , 1899-1930
In Germany, until the 1920s, excerpts from his historical works (especially the biographies of Cromwell and William III.) Appeared for use in English lessons in schools.
literature
- Mark Nixon: Samuel Rawson Gardiner and the Idea of History . Royal Historical Society / Boydell Press, 2010
- Ivan Roots: Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (1829–1902) in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 2004, doi: 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 74679
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gardiner, Samuel Rawson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ropley at Alresford , Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1902 |
| Place of death | Sevenoaks , Kent |