Adrian
Adrian names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Adrian or HADRIAN, PUBLIUS ÆLIUS
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
or HADRIAN, PUBLIUS ÆLIUS, a Roman emperor, born at Rome, 76 A. D. Entering the army quite young, he became tribune of a legion, and married Sabina, the heiress of Trajan, whom he accomp accompanied on his expeditions, and became successively prætor, governor of Pannonia, and consul. On Trajan's death, in 117, he assumed the government, made peace with the Persians, and remitted the debts of the Roman people. No monarch informed himself more by traveling than Adrian. In his reign, the Christians underwent a dreadful persecution. Adrian died at Baiæ, in 139. He had great virtues, which were, however, blended with as great vices. ADRIAN I., Pope, born at Rome; succeeded Stephen III. in 772. Adrian died after a pontificate of nearly 24 years, 795. Adrian was a man of talent and dexterity. ADRIAN II., born at Rome; succeeded Nicholas I. in the papal chair in 867. During the pontificate of Adrian, Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, withdrew from the Church of Rome. Adrian died in 872. ADRIAN III., born at Rome; succeeded Marinus in 884, and died the following year. ADRIAN IV., the only Englishman who was ever raised to the dignity of the papal chair, succeeded Anastasius IV. in 1154. His name was Nicholas Breakespere; and for some time he filled a mean situation in the monastery of St. Albans. Eugenius III. created him car- < dinal in 1146, and, in 1148, made him legate to Denmark and Norway, which nations he converted to the Christian faith. When nominated pope, he granted to Henry II. a bull for the conquest of Ireland. He died, supposedly of poison, in 1159. ADRIAN V., a Genoese, succeeded Innocent in 1276, and died five weeks after his election. ADRIAN VI., born at Utrecht, of an obscure family, advanced himself by his talents to the post of vice-chancellor of the University of Louvain. Ferdinand of Spain gave him the bishopric of Tortosa. After Ferdinand's death he was co-regent_of Spain with Cardinal Ximenes. He was elected pope in 1522, after the death of Leo X., chiefly through the influence of Charles V., whose authority was then spreading over Italy. He died in 1525.
Adrian city and county-seat of Lenawee co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
city and county-seat of Lenawee co., Mich.; on the Raisin river, and the Wabash, the Lake Shore, and the Toledo and Western railroads; 30 miles N. W. of Toledo, O. It is the seat of Adrian College (Methodist Protestant), the State Industrial Home for Girls, and St. Joseph's Hospital and Academy (Roman Catholic), and has important manufactures and a large farming trade. Pop. (1910) 10,763; (1920) 11,878.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's dates in 1921 need correcting: Hadrian died in 138, not 139, and Adrian VI died in September 1523, barely twenty months into his reign, not 1525. The claim that "in his reign, the Christians underwent a dreadful persecution" no longer stands — historians now read Hadrian's rescript to Minucius Fundanus as restraining mob accusations, and reserve the violence of his reign for the crushing of the Bar Kokhba revolt in Judaea, 132–135; the wall he built across northern Britain, barely mentioned in 1921, is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the thing he is best known for. Sabina was Trajan's grand-niece rather than his "heiress," and Adrian IV is better described as reorganising the Scandinavian church (he created the archbishopric of Nidaros in 1152) than as converting nations already largely Christian. Adrian, Michigan, has grown from 11,878 to roughly 20,000; Adrian College is now United Methodist, the passenger railways listed have gone, and the State Industrial Home for Girls has long since closed.
Written for this edition, 2026.