Johnson, John de Monins, 1882-1956
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Name (Latin)
Johnson, John de Monins, 1882-1956
Other forms of name
Johnson, John, 1882-1956
Johnson, John, British printer, 1882-1956
Date of birth
1882
Date of death
1956
Place of birth
Lincolnshire (England)
Other associated place
Oxford (England)
Field of activity
Printers Manuscripts (Papyri)--Research
Associate group
Oxford University Press
Exeter College (University of Oxford)
University of Oxford
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
During the Second World War, Johnson kept the University of Oxford Press running and was responsible for the security of the surrounding area, living at the Press and often rising at 4 am to work on his collection of printed ephemera -- his only recreation. In Egypt Johnson had wondered what we were doing to preserve our immediate paper heritage. In Oxford he formed his monumental collection, which he named the Constance Meade Collection of Ephemeral Printing. After his retirement, he continued to work on it, until his death in 1956. He is buried in Headington Cemetery. Johnson was awarded an Honorary DLitt in 1928 on his completion of the printing of the Oxford English Dictionary and was made an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College in 1936. He was appointed CBE in 1945 for special services during the war.
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Sources of Information
- International Congress for the History of Religions, 3d, Oxford, 1908. Transactions ...
- The Vasari Society for the reproduction of drawings by old and modern masters, 2nd ser., pt. 7, 1926:title page (Plates and letterpress printed at the University Press, Oxford, England by John Johnson)
- Union List of Artist Names, Getty Research Institute via VIAF, 3 March 2016(access point: Johnson, John, British printer, 1882-1956)
- John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera page (John de Monins Johnson (1882-1956) was born in Lincolnshire but spent most of his life in Oxford. He was educated at Magdalen College School and then at Exeter College, where he read Greats and then Arabic. After a short career in the Egyptian Civil Service, he became a papyrologist, discovering a Theocritus papyrus 900 years earlier than any previously known manuscript of the author. Although he subsequently co-edited a monograph on this papyrus, his career as a papyrologist was cut short by the outbreak of the First World War. Unfit for military service, Johnson returned to Oxford and was employed by the Oxford University Press as Assistant Secretary to the Delegates of the Press. In 1925 he became Printer to the University of Oxford, a post which he held until his retirement in 1946. ( (Oxford University, Bodleian Library website, 3 March 2016:) )
Wikipedia description:
John de Monins Johnson (1882–1956) was an English papyrologist, printer of the Oxford English Dictionary, and collector.
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