| The Letters of Peter Le Page Renouf (1822-97): V.3: Dublin 1854-1864: V.3: Dublin 1854-1864 Contributor(s): Cathcart, Kevin J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1900621908 ISBN-13: 9781900621908 Publisher: University College Dublin Press OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2019 Annotation: Sir Peter le Page Renouf ws invited by John Henry Newman to teach in Dublin, at Catholic University. These letters in the third of four volumes cover his time there and provide a great deal of material about Newman and the early years of the school, which was later to become University College Dublin. Renouf was later to become the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum and translator of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland - History | Ancient - Egypt - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 932.009 |
| LCCN: 2003464337 |
| Physical Information: 1.42" H x 6.06" W x 9.52" (1.73 lbs) 366 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland |
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| Publisher Description: Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as the most learned Englishman I know. The remarkable collection of his surviving letters covers Renouf's varied career from his days as a student in Oxford, his time as a lecturer in the 1850s at the new Catholic University in Dublin until after his retirement as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. The letters in volume three cover Renouf's years in Dublin. He had been invited by John Henry Newman to be a lecturer in French at the opening of the Catholic University, which was later to become University College Dublin. He was subsequently appointed Professor of Ancient History and Geography. In his letters to his family he provides a vivid impression of life in the early years of the university. During this time he married Ludovica Brentano of Aschaffenburg, Germany, niece of the poet Clemens Brentano, and they started a family. On the low salary of the Catholic University, the young couple found it very difficult to make ends meet.Renouf's talents in Egyptology become apparent and he edited the Atlantis, the university's own journal, and then helped with the editing of Sir John Dalberg Acton's Home and Foreign Review. His extensive correspondence with Acton is included in this volume. In 1864, Acton helps to obtain a post for Renouf in England as Inspector of Schools. |