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Erasmus Smith's Professor Of Modern History
Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History is a chair in history at Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive .... It was founded in 1762 and funded by the Erasmus Smith Trust, which was established by Erasmus Smith, who lived 1611–1691. It had been preceded by a Professorship of Oratory and History in 1724, and in 1762 the original professorship continued as a Professorship of Oratory alone. One of its incumbents was the celebrated J. B. Bury (1861-1927), author of ''History of the Roman Empire'' (1893), ''The Life of St. Patrick and his place in History'' (1905) and ''A History of Freedom of Thought'' (1914). The current occupant of the Erasmus Smith’s chair is Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, a historian of the seventeenth-century Irish nobility.https: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor (highest Academic Rank)
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of List of academic ranks, academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word ''professor'' is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well, and often to instructors or lecturers. Professors often conduct original research and commonly teach undergraduate, Postgraduate educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline. Similar debates surround the purpose of history—for example, whether its main aim is theoretical, to uncover the truth, or practical, to learn lessons from the past. In a more general sense, the term ''history'' refers not to an academic field but to the past itself, times in the past, or to individual texts about the past. Historical research relies on Primary source, primary and secondary sources to reconstruct past events and validate interpretations. Source criticism is used to evaluate these sources, assessing their authenticity, content, and reliability. Historians strive to integrate the perspectives o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. Founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592 through a royal charter, it is one of the extant seven "ancient university, ancient universities" of Great Britain and Ireland. Trinity contributed to Irish literature during the Georgian era, Georgian and Victorian era, Victorian eras, and areas of the natural sciences and medicine. Trinity was established to consolidate the rule of the Tudor dynasty, Tudor monarchy in Ireland, with Provost (education), Provost Adam Loftus (bishop), Adam Loftus christening it after Trinity College, Cambridge. Built on the site of the former Priory of All Hallows demolished by King Henry VIII, it was the Protestant university of the Protestant Ascendancy, Ascendancy ruling eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erasmus Smith
Erasmus Smith (1611–1691) was an English merchant and a landowner with possessions in England and Ireland. Having acquired significant wealth through trade and land transactions, he became a philanthropist in the sphere of education, treading a path between idealism and self-interest during a period of political and religious turbulence. His true motivations remain unclear. Smith's family owned manors in Leicestershire and held Protestant beliefs. He became a merchant, supplying provisions to the armies of the Puritan Oliver Cromwell – during Cromwell's suppression of rebellion in Ireland — and an alderman of the City of London. His financial and landowning status was greatly enhanced by benefiting from his father's subscription to the Adventurers' Act from which he gained extensive landholdings in Ireland as a reward, and from his own speculative practice of buying additional subscriptions from other investors. During the period of Cromwell's rule and the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Ohlmeyer
Jane Ohlmeyer, , is a historian and academic, specialising in early modern Irish and British history. She is the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Irish Research Council, which funds frontier research across all disciplines. Ohlmeyer was the founding Head of the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, Trinity's first vice-president for Global Relations (2011–14), and Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute (2015–20). Ohlmeyer has been the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI for 25 research and research infrastructure projects with awards totalling c. €22 million from national, European and international funders. In addition to historical research, Ohlmeyer regularly speaks on topics that relate more generally to the importance of the arts and humanities, the value of inter- and trans-disciplinarity, educational policy, and digital humanities. She has com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kearney (priest)
The Ven. Michael Kearney, D.D. (1734, Dublin – 1814, Dublin) was an Irish priest and academic. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he was the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History there from 1769 to 1776 and Regius Professor of Law from 1776 to 1778. He was the incumbent at Tullyaughnish from 1778; and then Archdeacon of Raphoe from his collation on 28 February 1798 until his death on 11 January 1814. His younger brother was a Fellow of the Royal Society; Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1799 to 1806;John Kearney ''Trinity College Website'', Retrieved on 13 September 2009. and Bishop of Ossory
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Henry Joseph Dabzac
Henry Joseph Dabzac (1737–12 May 1790) was an Irish academic.Dabzac, Henry Joseph Burtchaell, George Dames; Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (eds), ''Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)'', p. 140: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935. Life and career< ...
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George Hall (academic)
George Hall (3 November 1753 – 23 November 1811) was an English academic who served as the 24th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1806 to 1811. He also served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics from 1799 to 1800 and the Church of Ireland Bishop of Dromore for a few days before he died in 1811.''A New History of Ireland'' Moody, T. M.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J.; Cosgrove, F.: By Theodore William Moody, Francis X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 Early life Son of the Rev. Mark Hall, of Northumberland, he was born there, but soon thereafter his family moved to Ireland. His first employment was as an assistant-master in Dr. Darby's school near Dublin. Having entered Trinity College Dublin, on 1 November 1770, under the tutorship of the Rev. Gerald Fitzgerald, he was elected a scholar in 1773; he graduated B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778, B.D. 1786, and D.D. 1790. Academic career He was a successful candidate for a fellowship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Hodgkinson
Francis Hodgkinson (died 1840) was Regius Professor of civil law (1834) and Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History is a chair in history at Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as ... (1799) at Trinity College, Dublin. He was also vice-provost of the college from 1821 to 1832. Trinity College, Dublin. Retrieved 26 July 2016. Hodgkinson did not deliver any lectures on history between the date of his appointment in 1799 and his death in 1840, causing his assistant, George Miller, to develop his own lecture course which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Singer (bishop)
Joseph Henderson Singer (1786–1866) was an Irish Anglican bishop in the Church of Ireland in the 19th century. He was the son of James Singer the Deputy Commissary-General of the Forces in Ireland and Elizabeth Henderson. He became a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 1810 and was subsequently its Regius Professor of Divinity and Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History. He became Bishop of Meath in 1852 and died in post on 16 July 1866. Dr. Singer was a member of and served as secretary to the Royal Irish Academy. He was a leading member of the Evangelical body of the Irish Church and a strong opponent of the National Board of Education. Rev. Singer served as Chaplain to the Magdalen Asylum on Leeson Street. He served on committees and was a trustee a number of Church of Ireland and benevolent societies, such as the Protestant Orphan Society, as secretary of the Hibernian Bible Society, a trustee of North Strand Episcopal Chapel and Schools. He was a committee membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Curtis
Edmund CurtisIrish: ''Éamon Cuirtéis'' (1881–1943), was born in Lancashire to Irish parents. He worked in a rubber factory until he was 15 when he continued with his education. His education was paid for through donations when it was heard that poems he had published when he was 14 and later in London in June 1896 were from a factory worker. In 1900 he won a history scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1904. He secured a lectureship at the University of Sheffield following graduation. In 1912 he published his first book, ''The Normans in Lower Italy''. He applied for the then vacant Erasmus Smith's Chair of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin and was appointed in 1914. He held this post for 25 years. After, from 1939, he held the Lecky Chair of History (also at Trinity) for the 4 years prior to his death in 1943. As part of his work with the Irish Manuscripts Commission The Irish Manuscripts Commission was established in 1928 by the newly found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore William Moody
Theodore William Moody (26 November 1907 – 11 February 1984) was a historian from Belfast, Ireland. Background Early life Moody was born in Belfast, to a poor family who made their living from dressmaking and iron turning and was educated from 1920 to 1926 at the Belfast Academical Institution. Moody's parents both belonged to the Plymouth Brethren. As a six-year-old in 1913, Moody saw the homes of Roman Catholics living down the street go up in flames during a riot against the Home Rule bill, which left him with a lifelong horror of the sectarian hatreds that so often characterised Irish life. At the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Moody's strongest subjects were the sciences and Latin, but one of his teachers, Archie Douglas turned his attention to history. At the Queen's University Belfast, a professor James Eadie Todd encouraged Moody to pursue graduate studies. In 1930 he went to the Institute of Historical Research in London, and graduated with a PhD in 1934. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
