Vivian Hunter Galbraith

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Vivian Hunter Galbraith , FBA (born December 15, 1889 in Sheffield , United Kingdom , † November 25, 1976 in Oxford , United Kingdom) was an English historian , Fellow of the British Academy and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford.

Live and act

Vivian Hunter Galbraith was born to David Galbraith and Eliza Davidson McIntosh. His father worked as a secretary in a steel mill. He moved to London with his family and attended Highgate School from 1902 to 1906 when his family moved to Manchester . At the University of Manchester there , he began studying history in 1907. His teachers included Maurice Powicke, Thomas Frederik Tout and James Tait . Galbraith later wrote an article with Tout and Tait for the Dictionary of National Biography as part of a series of lectures on " Modern History " at the University of Manchester. 1910 and won the Brackenbury Scholarship at Balliol College , Oxford . For his work on the history of St Albans he received the Stanhope Prize in Oxford in 1911 .

Galbraith later became a Langton Research Fellow at Manchester University. His research topic was the history of the town of Bury St Edmunds . After the outbreak of World War I , he volunteered in January 1915 and served as a company commander in the Queen's regiment. After the fighting in Palestine in 1917 he was awarded the Croix de guerre .

In January 1919, Galbraith resumed teaching. He was initially a lecturer in Manchester and continued his previous research in London on a Langton Research Fellowship . From 1921 he worked at the Public Record Office (1838-2003 the "National Archives" of the United Kingdom), where he had access to numerous medieval documents. In 1927 he published The Anonimalle Chronicle 1333 to 1381. From a MS. written at St. Mary's abbey, York.

In June 1921 he married Georgina Rosalie, daughter of Lyster Cole Baker.

Life in Oxford

In 1928, Galbraith became a lecturer at Oxford and a tutorial fellow at Balliol College . As a result of this activity, he published an edition of the Chronicle of St Albans in 1937 (from 1406 to 1420). In the same year he took over the chair of history at the University of Edinburgh , in 1939 he became a Fellow of the British Academy .

Galbraith became director of the Institute of Historical Research in London in 1944 . In 1948 he followed Maurice Powicke as Regius Professor of New History at Balliol College. The latter made him an honorary member in 1957, and Oriel College followed in 1958.

Galbraith's research interests included u. a. which the history of the Domesday Book ( The Making of Domesday Book, Oxford, 1961).

Galbraith died in Oxford on September 25, 1967, at the age of 87.

literature

  • RW Southern: Vivian Hunter Galbraith, 1889-1976 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 64 , 1979, pp. 397-425 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

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SURNAME Galbraith, Vivian Hunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English historian, Fellow of the British Academy and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1976
Place of death Oxford