James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude ( born April 23 1818 in Dartington, Devon, England; † October 20, 1894 ) was a British historian, novelist and editor of Fraser 's Magazine. He was one of his works because of ( History of England ) to the most famous and polemic because of his inclinations among the most controversial British historians of his time. He was also the brother of the hydrodynamics researcher William Froude.

Life

Froude came from an Anglican cleric family and was the youngest of eight siblings. When he was three years old, his mother and five of his siblings died of tuberculosis. He grew up motherless.

Froude interested vehemently for the literary classics as well as works of historiography and theology. He studied from 1836 to its completion in 1840 at Oriel College. In 1842, he won a literary prize in Oxford for his essay on political economy and was elected a Fellow of Exeter College.

First, he wanted to be himself cleric. In 1845 he was ordained Anglican priest. But his religious doubts grew. He published it, dressed as a semi- autobiographical novel works. First, the novel Shadows of the Clouds was built in 1847 under the pseudonym " Zeta ". Two years later, under his own name the title The Nemesis of Faith. This cost him his professorship at Exeter College, so he had to live temporarily of journalistic work. Froude was not the Christian faith, but he left the Anglican church. He turned to the science of history.

Froude was through his work History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada widely known. Inspired by Thomas Carlyle, his historical writings were highly polemical, which earned him many academic and personal opponents and enmities.

The resulting after a trip through the Caribbean in 1886 and 1887 book, "The English in the West Indies" (1888 published by Longmans in London ) offers a vivid, elegantly written portrait of the local British colonies, but also, especially in his passages on Haiti (Chapter 12), one of the most depressing evidence of British racism in the late 19th century.

In 1892 he received the " Regius Professor of Modern History" at the University of Oxford. Froude delivered his lectures mainly on the subject of the English Reformation. When he the efforts of the teaching activities were too much health, he retired in 1894 retired after Devonshire back.

Works

Novels

• Shadows of the Clouds (1847 )
• The Nemesis of Faith (1849 )
• The Two Chiefs of Dunboy (1889 )

Non-fiction

• History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1856-1870)
• Short Studies on Great Subjects (1867-1882) " The Oxford Counter- Reformation " (1881 )

Translations

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Elective Affinities ( The Elective Affinities ) (1854 published anonymously )

Quotes

• What can education do for a man, "he once asked, " except enable him to tell a lie in five ways instead of one?