[Obituaries]
1927; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 119; Issue: 3007 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/119897b0
ISSN1476-4687
Autores ResumoWE record with regret the death of Prof. John Bagnell Bury, Regius professor of modern history at Cambridge, which took place at Rome on June 1. Born in County Monaghan on Oct. 16, 1861, he entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a sizar, and was elected to a fellowship in 1885. After his election he began to specialise as a historian, publishing his “History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene” in 1889. In 1893 he was appointed professor of modern history in the University of Dublin, and in 1902 he succeeded Lord Acton as Regius professor at Cambridge. He had already published his most important and lasting work, in his “History of the Roman Empire from its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius” (Murray's “Student's Histories,”1893), the “History of Greece to the Death of Alexander”(1900), and his edition of Gibbon (1896–1900). In these, his remarkably wide range of knowledge, his extensive acquaintance with languages, his ability to marshal a vast array of facts, and his scientific conception of history, were utilised to the full in a treatment of historical matters which combined a broad grasp of the trend of events with a scrupulous care for detail. In addition to his other published work, he was responsible for the plan of the Cambridge “Medieval History,” and collaborated in the editorship of the Cambridge “Ancient History.”
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