Felix Maurice Hippisley Markham (1908 in

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– 1992) was a British

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, known for his biography of

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...

. Markham studied both '' Literae humaniores'' and modern history at

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. He was Fellow and History Tutor at Hertford College, Oxford, from 1931 until 1973. Markham corresponded with film director

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over a never-realised project of Kubrick's on Napoleon.

Publications

*''Napoleon'', New American Library 1963, new edition, edited by Steve Englund, Signet Classics 2010 *''Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe'', English Universities Press 1954, Collier Books 1965 *''The Bonapartes'', New York, Taplinger Publishing 1975 *''Herausgeber: Henri Comte de Saint-Simon, 1760–1825: Selected Writings'', Blackwell 1952 *"The Napoleonic Adventure", in '' The New Cambridge Modern History'', Volume 9, 1965 *''Oxford'', London 1975, preface by C. M. Bowra

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Markham, Felix 1908 births 1992 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of Hertford College, Oxford 20th-century British historians Historians of the University of Oxford