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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sir John Robert Seeley (1834–1895)

Seeley, John Robert, Sir. An English historical scholar; born in London, Sept. 10, 1834; died at Cambridge (where he was professor of Modern History), Jan. 13, 1895. He came into notice through the book ‘Ecce Homo’ (a life of Christ), in 1865, which made a great sensation and was reviewed by Mr. Gladstone; he published ‘Natural Religion’ in 1882; and in ‘Lectures and Essays’ (1870) he wrote on art, ethics, and education. But his really important work was historical: ‘Roman Imperialism,’ in the last-mentioned volume; his masterpiece, ‘Life and Times of Stein’ (3 vols., 1878), a history of the regeneration of Prussia in the Napoleonic period; ‘The Expansion of England’ (1883; a series of lectures), and cognate works; and ‘A Short History of Napoleon the First’ (1886: reprinted from the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica’).