Edward Augustus Freeman
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1823 – 1892
Who was Edward Augustus Freeman?
Edward Augustus Freeman was an English historian, architectural artist, liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of William Gladstone, and a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans; later he and Evans would be activists in the Balkan uprising of Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Ottoman Empire. After the marriage of his daughter Margaret to Evans, he and Evans collaborated on the fourth volume of his History of Sicily. He was a prolific writer, publishing 239 distinct works. One of his best known is History of the Norman Conquest. Both he and Margaret died before Evans purchased the land from which he would excavate the Palace of Knossos.
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- Born
- Aug 2, 1823
Harborne - Also known as
- Edward A. Freeman
- E. A. Freeman
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Trinity College, Oxford
- Employment
- Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford
(1884 - 1892)
- Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford
- Died
- Mar 16, 1892
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on July 23, 2013
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