Aubrey Gwynn

Aubrey Osborn Gwynn (* 1892 in England; † 18 May 1983; Dublin) was an Irish historian and Jesuit. As a professor of Medieval History at University College Dublin and President of the Royal Irish Academy, he was one of the leading historians of Ireland in particular has deepened the understanding of the Irish Church in the 11th and 12th centuries.

Life

Aubrey Gwynn was born into a Protestant family in Dublin, who lived in London at the time of his birth. His grandfather John Gwynn (1827-1917) was professor of theology at the University of Dublin, who was best known for his 1913 published text-critical edition of the Book of Armagh. Aubrey Gwynns father Stephen Gwynn (1864-1950) was the leading non-Catholic member of the old nationalist party in Ireland and a member of the House of Commons. Both parents were active as a writer. While his father has published numerous novels and classical texts published, his mother Stories from Irish History Told for Children published. To the family included three brothers and two sisters.

In December 1902 converted Aubrey Gwynns Mother Marie Louise to Catholicism. Her husband did not follow, but admitted that all six children also changed to the Roman Catholic Church. After that it was the mother's wish that the children all go to a Catholic school, while the father wanted an Irish school. Easter 1903 changed all children to the Jesuit -run Clongowes Wood College of at Clane in County Kildare. 1908 Aubrey Gwynn graduated school with honors.

In 1909, Aubrey Gwynn wrote the first-ever a student at the newly established University College Dublin, where he was to remain faithful until his retirement in 1927 later. Three years later, while still a student, he applied for admission into the Society of Jesus and was admitted to the novitiate in Tullabeg on 30 September 1912 by the then Irish provincial William Delany. In 1914 he took part in a competition for a scholarship to study abroad at Oxford and won it against Michal Tierney, who later became President of University College Dublin. Found support Aubrey Gwynn also used by the 1912 Provincial TV Nolan, who appointed him after his studies at Oxford as a teacher in Clongowes and it finally sent for further studies after lions and Milltown Park in Dublin. 1924 Aubrey Gwynn was ordained a priest in Milltown Park. Then he was sent to Tertiate one more time in the Netherlands. During this time Aubrey Gwynns work Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian, that should be a standard work arose.

John Fahy, who took office in 1922 as Provincial in Ireland, had 1927 Aubrey Gwynn the religious house in Lower Leeson Street near the St. Stephen's Green in Dublin. Here began the career of Aubrey Gwynn at University College Dublin, first as a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, and from 1930, when the place of JM O'Sullivan was free, a professor of Medieval History. Had a significant influence on the change from the middle ages Aubrey Gwynns work on Richard FitzRalph (1295-1360), who became the Archbishop of Armagh to a dominating figure in the Irish Church of the later Middle Ages. Other church history topics followed, such as the history of the Augustinian Hermits in England or the Diocese of Armagh in the Middle Ages. In general, his themes were widespread, and he tended to spontaneously engage in new fields when offered a chance.

After David Knowles in collaboration with R. Neville Hadcock 1940, the reference book The Religious Houses of Medieval England all the medieval monasteries of England published, it became clear how much a new version of the Monasticon Hibernicums was due for Ireland. After Aubrey Gwynn 1959 Towards a new Monasticon Hibernicum published his plea for an appropriate follow-up project and a year later worked together with R. Neville Hadcock the Map of Monastic Ireland, the corresponding Irish project was born. Health problems, however, led to the fact that the project was delayed until 1970 and remained the largest part of the load by the co -author R. Neville Hadcock.

1961 Aubrey Gwynn went into retirement. At the same time he was elected President of the Royal Irish Academy. In addition to his work on the Irish monasteries, he began a work-up and integration of its many church history journal articles into a book. However, this project also proved to be not easy. Enthusiastic, hyperactive periods alternated with periods in which Aubrey Gwynn did not consider itself in a position to continue this work. Various attempts to do this with external assistance, failed as well. 1978 his eyesight was so much affected that further work never came into question. Only in 1992, almost ten years after his death, the publication with Gerard O'Brien succeeded as editor.

Works (selection)

  • Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1926.
  • Richard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh. From: Studies, xxii (1933) 389-405 and xxiii (1934 ) 395-411.
  • The English Austin Friars in the Time of Wyclif. Oxford University Press, London 1940.
  • The Medieval Province of Armagh from 1470 to 1545. Dundalgan Press, Dundalk 1946.
  • The Writings of Bishop Patrick, 1074-1084. Institute of Advanced Studies ( Scriptores Latini Hiberniae, I), Dublin 1955.
  • Together with R. Neville Hadcock: Medieval Religious Houses Ireland. Longman, London, 1970, ISBN 0-582-11229- X.
  • The Irish Church in the 11th and 12th centuries. Edited by Gerard O'Brien, Four Courts Press, Dublin 1992, ISBN 1-85182-095-7.
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