Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Duffy, Eamon (1947-present), church historian and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Parallel form(s) of name
- Eamon Duffy, DD, FBA
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
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Description area
Dates of existence
1947-present
History
Educated at St Philip's Grammar School Birmingham, University of Hull, Selwyn College (PhD 1972). Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History, King's College London 1974–1979. University Lecturer in Divinity Faculty, Cambridge 1979–1994, Reader 1994, Professor of the History of Christianity 2003. Hawthornden Prize for Literature 2002.
Fellow 1979 (Director of Studies in History and in Theology; Tutor), President 2001–2006.
Member of the Pontifical Historical Commission 2001; President of the Ecclesiastical History Society 2004–2005; Hon Member of the Irish Royal Academy, 2012.
College Magazine
Article, College Magazine, vol. 45 (2000–01) p. 21