Background
Trapp, Joseph Burney was born on July 16, 1925 in Carterton, New Zealand. Came to England, 1951. Son of Henry Mansfield Burney and Frances Melanie (Wolters) Trapp.
(In this study, the published record of the sixth series o...)
In this study, the published record of the sixth series of Panizzi Lectures given at The British Library in 1990, the author provides a detailed survey of the manuscripts and printed books that the early Tudor Humanists wrote, had written or printed for them, owned, read and used.
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Trapp, Joseph Burney was born on July 16, 1925 in Carterton, New Zealand. Came to England, 1951. Son of Henry Mansfield Burney and Frances Melanie (Wolters) Trapp.
Dannevirke High School and Victoria University College, Wellington, New Zealand.
Assistant Librarian, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington 1946-1950. Jr. Lecturer, Victoria University College 1950-1951. Assistant Lecturer, University of Reading, England 1951-1953.
Assistant Librarian, then Librarian, Warburg Institute, London 76, Director and Professor, of the History of the Classical Tradition 1976-1990. Vice-President British Academy 1983-1985, Foreign Secretary since 1988. Chairman Advisory Committee, and Trustee, Lambeth Palace Library since 1987.
(In this study, the published record of the sixth series o...)
Author: Erasmus, Colet and More: The Early Tudor Humanists and their Books, 1991, Essays on the Renissance and the Classical Tradition, 1990. Editor: The Apology of Sir Thomas More, 1979, The King's Good Servant: Sir Thomas More (exhibition catalogue), 1977, Medieval English Literature, 1974, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 1400-1557, 1999. Contributor articles to learned journals.
Fellow British Academy (vice president 1983-1985, foreign secretary 1988-1995), Society Antiquaries, Royal Swedish Academy of History, Antiquities and Letters (foreign member).
Married Elayne Margaret Falla, June 9, 1953. Children: Michael Burney, James Stephen.