Tanner
Tanner names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Tanner THOMAS, an English clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS, an English clergyman; born in Market Lavington, Wiltshire, England, Jan. 25, 1674; after graduating from Queen's College, Oxford, was in 1696 elected a Fellow of All Souls. He had already a high reputation as an antiquary, and Wood at his death in 1695 left him the care of his papers. He took orders, and became in succession chaplain to his father-in-law, Bishop Moore of Norwich, chancellor of Norwich, prebendary of Ely, rector of Thorpe near Norwich, archdeacon of Norwich (1710), canon of Christ Church, Oxford (1723), and Bishop of St. Asaph (1732). An improved and enlarged edition of his "Notitia "Notitia Monastica" (on Monasteries 1695), appeared in folio under the care of his brother in 1744. But Bishop Tanner's fame rests hardly less securely on his great posthumous biographical and bibliographical work-the labor of 40 years, "Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica" (British Hibernian Library, ed. by Dr. D. Wilkins, 1748). His edition of Wood's "Athene Oxonienses" (The Oxonian Atheno), he had published in two volumes, folio, in 1721. He died in Oxford Dec. 14, 1735. See WOOD, TANNHÄUSER, or TANHÄUSER (tän-hoi'-zer), in old German legend, a knight who gains admission into a hill called the Venusberg, in the interior of which Venus holds her court, and who for a long time remains buried in sensual pleasures, but at last listens to the voice of the Virgin Mary, whom he hears calling on him to return. The goddess allows him to depart, when he hastens to Rome to seek from the Pope (Pope Urban) absolution for his sins. The Pope, however, when he knows the extent of the knight's guilt, declares to him that it is as impossible for him to obtain pardon as it is for the wand which he holds in his hand to bud and bring forth green leaves. Despairing, the knight retires from the presence of the pontiff, and enters the Venusberg once more. Meanwhile the Pope's wand actually begins to sprout, and the Pope, taking to sign from God that there was still an opportunity of salvation for the knight, hastily sends messengers into all lands to seek for him. But Tannhäuser is never again seen. The Tannhäuser legend has been treated poetically by Tieck, and Richard Wagner has adopted it (with modifications) as the subject of one of his operas.
Tanner BENJAMIN TUCKER, an American clergyman of the A
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BENJAMIN TUCKER, an American clergyman of the A. M. E. Church, born at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1835. Educated at Avery College and Western Theological Seminary, he was ordained in the A. M. E. ministry and elected bishop in 1888, serving as editor of the "Christian Recorder," the organ of the A. M. E. Church, for 16 years. He was the founder and for four years the editor of the "A. M. E. Church Review" and a member of the Negro-American Academy. He wrote: "The Origin of the Negro"; "Is the Negro Cursed?"; "Apology for African Methodism"; "Outlines of African Methodist Episcopal Church History"; "The Dispensations in the History of the Church"; "The Negro in Holy Writ"; "A Hint to Ministers, Especially of the African Methodist Episcopal Church"; "The Color of Solomon- What?"
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Bishop Thomas Tanner's story stands as Collier's told it in 1921: the "Notitia Monastica" and "Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica" are still consulted by medievalists, and the roughly 500 volumes of papers he left to the Bodleian are still catalogued as the Tanner Manuscripts, a working source for scholars of the English Reformation and the Civil War. For Benjamin Tucker Tanner the account was written near the end of his life; he died in 1923, two years after Collier's went to press. What the entry does not mention is his son, Henry Ossawa Tanner, who became the best-known African American painter of his generation and in 1996 the first Black artist whose work entered the White House collection — today the Tanner name is far likelier to call up the painter than the bishop, and the "Negro-American Academy" listed here is the American Negro Academy, founded 1897 and dissolved in the 1920s.
Written for this edition, 2026.