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BURY, JOHN BAGNELL (1861- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 867 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BURY, See also:JOHN BAGNELL (1861- ) , See also:British historian, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:October 1861, and was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, where he was elected to a fellowship in 1885. A See also:fine See also:Greek See also:scholar, he edited See also:Pindar's Nemean and Isthmian Odes; but he devoted himself chiefly to the study of See also:history, and was chosen See also:professor of See also:modern history at Dublin in 1893, becoming regius professor of Greek in 1898. He resigned both positions in 1902, when he was elected regius professor of modern history in the university of See also:Cambridge. His See also:historical See also:work was mainly concerned with the later See also:Roman See also:empire, and his edition of See also:Gibbon's Decline and Fall, with a masterly introduction and valuable notes (1896-1900), is the See also:standard See also:text of this history. He also wrote a History of See also:Greece to the See also:Death of See also:Alexander the See also:Great (19o0); History of the Later Roman Empire,,395-800 (1889) History of the Roman Empire 27 B.C.-180 A.D. (1893); See also:Life of St See also:Patrick and his See also:Place in History (1905), &c. He was elected a See also:fellow of See also:King's College, Cambridge, and received honorary degrees from the See also:universities of See also:Oxford, See also:Edinburgh, See also:Glasgow, See also:Aberdeen and See also:Durham.

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