Mark Pattison (academic)

Mark Pattison (* October 10, 1813, † 30 July 1884 in Harrogate, Yorkshire ) was an English author; he was rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.

His father, the rector in Hauxwell, Yorkshire was, taught him personally. In 1832 he matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he earned a BA (Bachelor of Arts) in 1836 made ​​. After several attempts to become fellow of a college, he was in 1839 elected to the Lincoln, which was an anti - puseyistisches College at that time - whereas Pattison, Pusey adhered under the strong influence of John Henry Newman, for whom he worked: his work for Newman concerned the translation of Thomas Aquinas' Catena Aurea, as well as essays in British Critic and Christian Remembrancer.

In 1843 he was ordained a priest in the same year tutor at Lincoln College, where he quickly earned a reputation as a good and sympathetic teacher. The management of the college was practically in his hand, his reputation as a scholar at the University high. 1851, the Rector of Lincoln was vacant, and Pattison election seemed certain - but he was pushed aside, and his health was due to this disappointment after. In 1855 he came back as a tutor, traveled to Germany to study educational systems on the European continent, and began his research into the life of Isaac Casaubon ( whose biography was published in 1875 ) and Joseph Justus Scaliger that bothered him the rest of his life.

In 1861 he was still elected rector of Lincoln. He married in the same year, Emilia Francis Strong, who later became Lady Dilke. As rector, he contributed much to literary themes at, but also showed considerable interest in the social sciences, and even sat one section at a congress in 1876 ago. On the other hand, he avoided the routine of the university administration and the Office of the Vice Chancellor pointed back.

He wrote in 1879 about John Milton in the series Macmillan 's English Men of Letters. The 18th century, especially its literature and theology, was his preferred area of ​​work, his contributions ( Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750 ) to his hand famous Essays and Reviews (1860 ) and his edition of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man ( 1869) and show another. His Sermons and Collected essays were published posthumously in 1889 by Henry Nettleship, as well as his Memoirs ( 1885), an autobiography that is deeply steeped in melancholy and bitterness. His project of a biography of Scaliger (Life ) he no longer completed.

Mark Pattison was a scholar who lived only for the intellect. He wrote about himself, apologizing for the style of his memoirs that he knew little or nothing about the current celebrities, and that his memory was imprecise. "My whole energy was directed only one thing - to improve myself to develop my views to investigate things thoroughly, to free myself from the shackles of irrationality " ( Memoirs, pp. I, 2. ). His memoirs are a pretty morbid book, in which Mark Pattison is consistently mercilessly with it. It is obvious that he has brought the rationalism to a degree in religion, which is hardly compatible with his position as a priest of the Anglican Church.

• Author
• Literature (19th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Briton
• Born in 1813
• Died in 1884
• Man