J. B. Bury, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

J. B. Bury

Irish historian and freethinker

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1861

Place of Birth: County Monaghan, Border Region, Ireland

Date of Death: 01-Jun-1927

Profession: historian, university teacher, classical scholar, linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

John Bagnell Bury, (UK: ; 16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist.
He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire.
He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin (1893–1902), before being Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1902 until his death.