Biography of Henry Hart Milman


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Milman, Henry Hart. Born in London, 1791. An ecclesiastical historian and poet. For several years, professor of poetry in the University of Oxford, and after 1849 he was Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral. His best known poems are "The Fall of Jerusalem," and "The Martyr of Antioch." His historical works are a "History of the Jews," a "History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire," and a "History of Latin Christianity, Including That of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V." Died 1868.