Name John Pollen | Role Jesuit | |
Died 1925, Roehampton, London, United Kingdom Parents John Hungerford Pollen, Maria Margaret Pollen Books Acts of English Martyrs H, The Counter‑reformation in Scotlan, Mary Queen of Scots and, Lives of the English Martyrs V, The English Catholics | ||
John Hungerford Pollen (22 September 1858–1925) was an English Jesuit, known as a historian of the Protestant Reformation.
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Life
John Hungerford Pollen was the son of John H. and Maria Margaret (née Laprimaudeye) Pollen. The third of ten children, he was born in London in 1858. His father was professor of fine arts at the Catholic University in Dublin. Pollen entered the Society of Jesus in 1877 and was ordained in 1891.
He was one of the group of Jesuit historians restoring the reputation of Robert Persons. He was influential in the history of the term Counter-Reformation, accepting for the Catholic side the appellation for the period of Catholic reform centred on the Council of Trent, but at the same time offering an interpretation that made it less reactive, in relation to the Protestant Reformation. These ideas were put forth in the 1908 Catholic Encyclopedia article he wrote on the subject.
He was a correspondent of Georg Cantor, from 1896 and an active member of the Catholic Record Society (founded 1904).