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J. B. Bury

1861 - 1927

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John Bagnell Bury (; 16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin (1893–1902), before being Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge from 1902 until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. J. B. Bury is the 358th most popular historian (up from 427th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Ireland (up from 215th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, J. B. Bury ranks 358 out of 561. Before him are Nicholas Adontz, Kurt Aland, Milan Šufflay, Fernão Lopes, Hafiz-i Abru, and Dino Compagni. After him are Edward Granville Browne, Miroslav Hroch, Fenestella, Israel Gutman, Donald Kagan, and Léon Poliakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, J. B. Bury ranks 105. Before him are Kadambini Ganguly, Helen Herron Taft, Dorothea Klumpke, Krikor Zohrab, Hannes Hafstein, and Maximilian Harden. After him are Anna Brigadere, Bhikaiji Cama, Maxime Maufra, Makino Nobuaki, Herbert Hall Turner, and Racho Petrov. Among people deceased in 1927, J. B. Bury ranks 99. Before him are George Nichols, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Shushanik Kurghinian, Maximilian Harden, Hermann Obrist, and Harald Hansen. After him are Paul César Helleu, Constance Markievicz, Sakina Akhundzadeh, David Arellano, Georges Eekhoud, and Friedrich Reinitzer.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, J. B. Bury ranks 191 out of 549. Before him are Finn Bálor (1981), William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Violet Gibson (1876), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), and William Howard Russell (1820). After him are Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (1815), Markus Feehily (1980), William Thompson (1775), Tom Moore (1883), Patrick Bergin (1951), and Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880).

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Among HISTORIANS In Ireland

Among historians born in Ireland, J. B. Bury ranks 2. Before him are Peter Brown (1935).

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