J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (died 1927)

J. B. Bury

Anglo-Irish historian and classical scholar (1861–1927)

John Bagnell Bury was an Anglo-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…