1930 年10月胡適為中華文化基金會的編譯委員會建議的”史學名著”有四:本是真名著:
G. Grote 希臘史 HISTORY OF GREECE, G Grote / J.R. Green 英國史 (似尚未翻譯)
Edward Gibbon 和 Theodor Mommsen 的羅馬史 (都已翻譯)
John Richard Green (12 December 1837 – 7 March 1883) was an English historian.
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Early life
Born the son of a tradesman in Oxford, where he was educated, first at Magdalen College School, and then at Jesus College where he is commemorated by the J. R. Green Society, which meets twice a term.
Career
Religious career
He entered the Church, and served various cures in London, under a constant strain caused by delicate health. Always an enthusiastic student of history, the little leisure time he had was devoted to research.
Turn to historical writings
In 1869 he finally gave up his work as a clergyman, and was appointed librarian at Lambeth. He had been laying plans for various historical works, including a History of the English Church as exhibited in a series of Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, and, what he proposed as his magnum opus, a history of England under the Angevin kings. After suffering from failing health he abandoned these projects and instead concentrated his energies on the preparation of his A Short History of the English People, which appeared in 1874, and at once gave him an assured place in the first rank of historical writers.
Abandoning his proposed history of the Angevins, he confined himself to expanding his Short History into A History of the English People in 4 volumes. (1878–80), and writing The Making of England, of which one volume only, coming down to 828, had appeared when he died at Mentone in March 1883. After his death appeared The Conquest of England.
The Short History, which in 1915 was republished as part of the Everyman Library, may be said to have begun a new epoch in the writing of history, making the social, industrial, and moral progress of the people its main theme.
Personal life
In 1877 he married Alice Stopford.
Health
During the 1870s Green suffered from lung problems. His wife assisted him in carrying out and completing his work as his broken health took its toll during his few remaining years.
Bibliography
- (1874) A Short History of the English People
- (1879) English Literature (Editor)
- (1880) A History of the English People
- (1883) The Making of England
- (after 1883) The Conquest of England
References
This article incorporates public domain text from : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.
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