Alumni Cantabrigienses

Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 is the title of a biographical reference work, which all former students ( alumni), faculty and officials of the University of Cambridge to recorded for 1900. The project was commissioned by the philosopher and mathematician John Venn in 1900 in attack, but died in 1923, a year after the publication of the first two volumes; his son John Archibald Venn then took over the editorship. Until 1954, published in the university's publisher (Cambridge University Press) include a total of 10 volumes, the entries for about 130,000 people.

In particular, the later volumes are still a standard work of English genealogy and biography. For the period of the Middle Ages it has been superseded by AB Emden, Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to 1500 (1963), however. For several years, the University of Cambridge also operates the project ACAD, also a online database of all former students including women's colleges Girton College and Newnham College, which were until 1947 recognized as full colleges of the University; which started from the Fens entries were so enriched by thousands Addenda and errata over time.

Overview of all volumes

Linked are digital copies of all volumes on the sides of the Internet Archive

• I. Abbas - Cutts (1922 )
• II Dabbs - Juxton (1922 )
• III. Kaile - Ryves (1924 )
• IV room - Zuinglius (1927 )

• I. Abbey - Challis (1940 )
• II Chalmers - Fytche (1944 )
• III. Gabb - Justamond (1947 )
• IV Kahlenberg - Oyler (1947 )
• V. Pace - Spyers (1953)
• VI. Square - Zupitza (1954 )