| J. B. Bury | |
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John Bagnell Bury |
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| Born | 16 October 1861 County Monaghan, Great Britain |
| Died | 1 June 1927(1927-06-01) (aged 65) Rome, Italy |
John Bagnell Bury (16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927), known as J. B. Bury, was an Irish historian, classical scholar, Byzantinist and philologist. But he would have objected to the label of "Byzantinist", and did so explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire.
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