Athenae Cantabrigienses (Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110800038X ISBN 13: 9781108000383

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The Athenae Cantabrigienses was the most ambitious of several large writing projects undertaken by Charles Henry Cooper, a keen historian, successful lawyer and town clerk of Cambridge in the mid-nineteenth century. He enlisted the help of his elder son, Thompson Cooper, for this book, a collection of carefully-researched biographies of distinguished figures with Cambridge connections, inspired by Anthony Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (1692). Two volumes were published during Cooper senior's lifetime, but only 60 pages of this third volume (which covers 1609-1611) were completed during his lifetime, and he died in 1866 leaving an enormous quantity of notes. Even in its incomplete state, the work contains about seven thousand biographies; their subjects include clergymen, military commanders, judges, artists, scholars and benefactors of the University. Volume 3 was finally published in 1913 and contains additions and corrections to the previous volumes and an updated index.

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Book Description:

The monumental Athenae Cantabrigienses is a collection of biographies of distinguished historical figures with connections to Cambridge University, compiled by a noted local historian. Volume 3, published posthumously in 1913, covers the years 1609-11 and contains additions and corrections to the first two volumes and an updated index.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 110800038X
• ISBN 13: 9781108000383
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 68
• Editor: Cooper Charles Henry