Adolphus Ward

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Adolphus William Ward

Kt FBA FRHistS
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Sir Adolphus William Ward
Born2 December 1837
Hampstead, London
Died19 June 1924
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma mater
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EraMiddle Ages
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Sir Adolphus William Ward Kt FBA FRHistS (2 December 1837 in Hampstead, London – 19 June 1924) was an English historian and man of letters.

Life

Ward was born at Hampstead, London, the son of John Ward. He was educated in Germany and at Peterhouse, Cambridge.[1]

In 1866 Ward was appointed professor of history and English literature in Owens College, Manchester, and was principal from 1890 to 1897, when he retired. He took an active part in the foundation of Victoria University, of which he was vice-chancellor from 1886 to 1890 and from 1894 to 1896,[2] and he was a founder of Withington Girls' School in 1890.[3] He was a Member of the Chetham Society, serving as a member of council from 1884 and as president from 1901 until 1915.[4]

In 1897, the freedom of the city of Manchester was conferred upon him, he delivered the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in 1898, and on 29 October 1900 he was elected master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.[5]

He was elected in 1903 a Fellow of the British Academy and was the Academy's president from 1911 to 1913.[1] In 1919 he delivered the British Academy's Shakespeare Lecture.[6][7]

Ward served as president of the Royal Historical Society from 1899 to 1901,[8] and he was knighted in 1913.[9]

Works

Ward's major work is his standard History of English Dramatic Literature to the Age of Queen Anne (1875),[10] re-edited after a thorough revision in three volumes in 1899. He also wrote The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War (1869),[11] Great Britain and Hanover: Some Aspects of the Personal Union (1899),[12] and The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession (1903) (2nd ed. 1909).[13][2] His Germany, 1815–1890 has three volumes.

Ward edited George Crabbe's Poems (2 vols., 1905–1906) and Alexander Pope's Poetical Works (1869); he wrote the volumes on Geoffrey Chaucer and Charles Dickens in the "English Men of Letters" series, translated Ernst Curtius's History of Greece (5 vols., 1868–1873); with G. W. Prothero and Stanley Mordaunt Leathes he edited the Cambridge Modern His1901년과 1912년 사이에 토리, 그리고 A. R. 왈러와 함께 케임브리지 영문학사(1907년 등)를 편집했다.[2]

워드의 수집 논문은 1921년 캠브리지 대학 출판부에서 5권으로 출간했다.[14]

메모들

  1. ^ a b "Ward, Adolphus William (WRT855AW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ a b c 앞의 문장 중 하나 이상이 현재 공개 영역에 있는 출판물의 텍스트를 포함한다.
  3. ^ Newsletter 1936-1937. Withington Girls' School. 5 February 1937.
  4. ^ "Chetham Society: Officers and Council" (PDF). Chetham Society. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.[영구적 데드링크]
  5. ^ 대학 및 홀 – Peterhouse British History 온라인
  6. ^ Ward, A. W. "Shakespeare and the Makers of Virginia". Proceedings of the British Academy, 1919–1920. 11: 141–185.
  7. ^ "Shakespeare Lectures". The British Academy.
  8. ^ "List of Presidents". Royal Historical Society. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  9. ^ "Birthday Honours". The Times. London, England. 3 June 1913. pp. 9–10. The distinguished historian and critic; Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, since 1900; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1901; one of the editors of the Cambridge Modern History of the Cambridge History of English Literature
  10. ^ books.google.com
  11. ^ 30년 전쟁의 오스트리아의 집, archive.org
  12. ^ Great Britain and Hanover: Personal Union의 일부 측면들, archive.org
  13. ^ 소피아와 하노버 왕위계승 archive.org
  14. ^ Hutton, W. H. (October 1922). "The Collected Papers of A. W. Ward". The Quarterly Review. 238: 314–326.

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