Edward Bullough

Background

Edward Bullough was born on March 28, 1880, in Thun, Bern, Switzerland. He was a son of John Bullough and Bertha Schmidlein.

Education

Edward Bullough attended Vitzthum-Gymnasium in Dresden. When he was seventeen he moved to England and entered Trinity College in 1899 and studied there Medieval and Modern Languages. Bullough received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1992 and a Master of Arts degree in 1906.

Career

Edward Bullough started his career as a professor of French and German at Cambridge colleges. He became interested in aesthetics and in 1907 gave a course of lectures in aesthetics that was privately printed as The Modern Conception of Aesthetics. Later Bullough conducted experimental work on the perception of colors in the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory. In 1912, he published his theoretical paper, "'Psychical Distance' as a Factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle".

In 1915, Edward Bullough was recruited as a civilian to the Admiralty's cryptoanalysis section, Room 40. In 1919 he returned to Caius and published in the British Journal of Psychology two more papers on aesthetic theory. In 1920, Bullough took up a post of a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and held this post until 1923. He published translations of Étienne Gilson, Karl Adam, and Achille Ratti and also gave three papers on Dante at Catholic summer schools in Cambridge and Salzburg. In 1926, Bullough became a professor of Italian. He became a Serena Professor of Italian in 1933.

Achievements

• Edward Bullough was an English educator, philosopher, and writer who was famous for his work devoted to the perception of colors. He also introduced the concept of psychical distance.

Works

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  • Aesthetics: Lecture and Essay 1957

Religion

Edward Bullough joined the Roman Catholic Church as a Dominican Tertiary in 1923. He was active in the Cambridge University Catholic Association.

Views

Edward Bullough thought that a "concordance" between self and object is necessary for aesthetic appreciation. He also thought that the 'national' inheritance of Italy lies at the same time embedded in the foundations of Europe.

Membership

Edward Bullough was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.

Interests

• Parapsychology

Connections

Edward Bullough married Enrichetta Angelica Marchetti in 1908. The marriage produced a son and a daughter.

Father:

John Bullough

Mother:

Bertha Schmidlein

Wife:

Enrichetta Angelica Marchetti