William Miller (historian)

William Miller (born December 8, 1864 in Wigton , England , † October 23, 1945 in Durban , South Africa ) was an English private scholar who worked as a historian , medievalist and journalist .

Life

Miller was the son of a mine owner in Cumberland, Northern England . He attended rugby school and studied at Oxford University , where he graduated with honors. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1889, but he never practiced this profession, he was able to live on his private fortune. In 1895 he married Ada Mary Wright and left London with his wife in 1903 . The appointment to the first chair for modern Greek and Byzantine history at the London University he refused in the following period.

From 1909 to 1923 Miller worked as a correspondent for the conservative English newspaper Morning Post in Rome . After the fascists came to power under Benito Mussolini , he went to Athens as a correspondent . There he was associated with the British School at Athens as an honorary student until the German invasion of Greece in 1941 .

Miller was a contributor to Cambridge Medieval History until she was hired in 1937 . In 1941 he moved to South Africa, where he lived until his death in 1945. His wife survived him by four years. The couple had no children.

Miller was a Fellow of the British Academy (1932), an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens and a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens .

Publications

• The Balkans , 1896.
• Travels and Politics in the Near East , 1898.
• Greek Life in Town and Country , 1905.
• The Latins in the Levant , 1908.
• The Ottoman Empire and its Successors, 1801-1913 . Cambridge 1913.
  • Supplemented and expanded edition The Ottoman Empire and its Successors, 1801–1927 . Cambridge 1927.
  • updated edition: The Ottoman Empire and its Successors, 1801–1927, with an Appendix 1927–1936 . Cambridge 1936.
  • Reprint of the last edition: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., London 1966.
• Essays on the Latin Orient , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England 1921.
• History of the Greek People, 1821-1921 , 1922.
• Trebizond , the Last Greek Empire , 1926.

literature

• Steven Runciman : William Miller 1864-1945. In: Proceedings of the British Academy. Vol. 62, 1976, pp. 513-518 ( digital ).
• Paul Hetherington: William Miller: Medieval Historian and Modern Journalist. In: Scholars, Travels, Archives. Greek History and Culture through the British School at Athens (= British School at Athens Studies. Vol. 17). British School at Athens, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-904887-60-0 , pp. 153-161 ( JSTOR 40960680 ).
• Steven Runciman: William Miller, 1864-1945 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 62 , 1977, pp. 513-518 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

• Literature by and about William Miller (historian) in the WorldCat bibliographic database