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JOHN BAGNELL BURY (1861- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 867 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN BAGNELL See also:BURY (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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