James Bass Mullinger | |
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Born | 1834 or 1843 Bishop's Stortford, England, UK |
Died | Cambridge, England, UK | 22 November 1917 (aged 74–75 or 83–84)
Pen name | J. Bass Mullinger, Theodorus |
Occupation | Writer, librarian, historian, lecturer |
Nationality | British |
Genre | non-fiction, academic history, religious history |
Notable works | History of the University of Cambridge Down to the Decline of the Platonists |
James Bass Mullinger (1834 or 1843 – 22 November 1917), sometimes known by his pen name Theodorus, was a British author, historian, lecturer and scholar. A longtime university librarian and lecturer at St. John's College, Cambridge, Mullinger was the author of several books detailing the college's history and similar academic subjects. He was also a contributor to many periodicals of the Victorian era, most especially, Cambridge History of Modern Literature , the Dictionary of National Biography and Encyclopædia Britannica .
His best known effort, History of the University of Cambridge Down to the Decline of the Platonists (1873), was a three-volume history of the university and was considered the definitive work on the subject at the turn of the 20th century. It is today considered a landmark publication in British university history.
James Mullinger was born in Bishop's Stortford and educated at University College, London, and then admitted as a sizar at St. John's College, Cambridge in 1862. [1] He graduated with double honours in 1866, having taken both the Classical and Moral Science Triposes, and subsequently won the Le Bas, the Hulsean, and the Kaye Prizes. [2]
For a time he was a lecturer at Bedford College, London but eventually decided to teach at his alma mater. Returning to Cambridge, he became Birkbeck lecturer on Ecclesiastical History at Trinity College, and was a lecturer to the Teachers' Training Syndicate on the "History of Education" for ten years. [3] He held a university lectureship in history and was librarian of the historic Library of St. John's College for a number of years. [2] [4] [5]
He authored a number of books while at Cambridge, many of which related to the history of the institution, including Cambridge Characteristics in the 17th Century (1867), The Ancient African Church: Its Rise, Influence, and Decline (1869), The New Reformation, A Narrative of the Old Catholic Movement from 1870 to the Present Time (1875) and The Schools of Charles the Great and the Restoration of Education in the Ninth Century (1877). [3] In 1881, he and Professor Samuel R. Gardiner co-authored Introduction to the Study of English History [5] and, in 1897, collaborated with Rev. J. Howard B. Masterman a treatise on "The Age of Milton," which passed through seven editions. His last two books were History of St. John's College, Cambridge (1901) and Was Ben Jonson Ever a Member of Our College? (1904). [2]
His best known work, however, is the three-volume History of the University of Cambridge Down to the Decline of the Platonists. [3] This project took him well over three decades, [1] Mullinger being devoted to his academic responsibilities as well as being a regular contributor to many encyclopaedias, and journals of the period, [5] with the first volume of the History of Cambridge being published in 1873, the second in 1888 and the final one in 1911. [4] The following year, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from the university. [2]
Among the publications he worked on included the Cambridge History of Modern Literature , Cambridge Modern History , the Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Dictionary of National Biography and Encyclopædia Britannica . [5] Although he lived much of his life as "somewhat of a retired scholar", Mullinger enjoyed travelling abroad and compiled a collection of "fine photographs of buildings of architectural value". He died at Cambridge on 22 November 1917, [3] [4] at the age of 74. [2] [5]
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