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Thomas Anthony Clement Birrell (1924–2011) was Professor of English and American Literature at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (1949–84) and also served as the university's rector. In 1984 a Festschrift was published in his honour, ''Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, History and Bibliography'', edited by G.A.M. Janssens and F.G.A.M. Aarts (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984). ==Life== Birrell was born in London on 25 July 1924, the child of a Scottish Presbyterian father and an Irish Catholic mother. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, and sent to Downside School for his secondary education (1937–1941). His university studies at Cambridge were interrupted by the Second World War. He served in the Royal Armoured Corps, in the Netherlands and in India, returning to Cambridge in 1946 and graduating with honours in 1947. He briefly taught at the Cambridge Technical College, and at St Benedict's School, Ealing, in 1949 obtaining a position in the English department at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. He went on to become professor and head of department, and served a term as rector of the university. Birrell was particularly interested in seventeenth-century English Catholic literature. He himself, David Rogers, and Antony Allison, together revived the Catholic Record Society after the war, and from 1958 he helped to organize the Society's annual conference. After retiring from Nijmegen, Birrell moved to London and spent the next 20 years working on the history of libraries, particularly of the Royal Collection in the British Library. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「T. A. Birrell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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