John Henry Newman

21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890

An English theologian, preacher and man of letters. A leader of the Oxford Movement in the Church of England, he became a Roman Catholic in 1845 and a cardinal in 1879. Besides The Idea of a University, his works include the autobiographical Apologia Pro Vita Sua and the poem The Dream of Gerontius.

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1873

The Idea of a University

Newman's account of what a university is for, written when he was founding the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin.

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