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1906 Nobel Prize In Literature
The 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Italian poet Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) "not only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterize his poetic masterpieces." He was the first Italian author to receive the prize and was followed by Grazia Deledda in 1926. Laureate Carducci started composing poetry while he was young, influenced by both the poets of his own time and those he had studied in the ancient and Italian periods. ''Rime'' ("Rhymes", 1857) was his debut book of poetry. In his active life he became an atheist, and the provocative poem ''Inno a Satana'' ("Hymn to Satan", 1865) is where he best displays his criticism of Christianity. Carducci confessed his sins and was reconciled to the Catholic Church in 1895. His other well-known poetry collections include ''Primavere elleniche'' ("Hellenic Springs", 1872), '' Odi barbare'' ("Barbari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Prize Medal
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Jaroslav Vrchlický
Jaroslav Vrchlický (; 17 February 1853 – 9 September 1912) was a Czech lyrical poet. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature eight times. Life He was born Emilius Jakob Frida in Louny. He lived ten years with his uncle, a pastor near KolÃn. Here he attended the first years of primary school from 1857 to 1861), and the briefly in KolÃn from 1861 to 1862. He studied at a grammar school in Slaný from 1862, where he was a classmate of Václav BeneÅ¡ TÅ™ebÃzský, also in Prague and in 1872 graduated from Klatovy. Guided by his uncle's example, Vrchlický joined after graduating from the Prague Archbishop's seminary. But in 1873, he transferred to the Faculty of Arts of Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, where he studied history, philosophy and Romance philology. During his studies he studied with historian Ernest Denis Ernest Denis (January 3, 1849 – January 4, 1921) was a French historian. Denis became known as a specialist of Germany and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Ross Cousin
Anne Ross Cousin (n̩e Cundell; 27 April 1824 Р6 December 1906) was a British poet, musician and songwriter. She was a student of John Muir Wood and later became a popular writer of hymns, most especially "The Sands of Time Are Sinking", while travelling with her minister husband from 1854 to 1878. Many of her hymns were widely used throughout Great Britain during the mid-to late 19th century. One of her sons, John William Cousin, was a prominent writer and editor of ''A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature''. Biography Anne Ross Cousin was born in Hull, England on 27 April 1824. She was the only child of Dr. David Ross Cundell, a former assistant surgeon with the 33rd regiment at the Battle of Waterloo, and moved with her family to Leith soon after her birth. She received a private education and became a skilled pianist under John Muir Wood. In 1847, she married William Cousin, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, then serving at a local Presbyteria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Mary Clerke
Ellen Mary Clerke (26 September 1840 – 2 March 1906) was an Irish poet, linguist and a journalist. Originally from County Cork in Ireland, Clerke was educated in Italy. She wrote in English and Italian, publishing works on astronomy, travel, and poetry. Her journalistic works, including on European politics and current affairs, were published in several magazines in the 1880s and 1890s. Clerke died in London in 1906. Early life She was the daughter of Catherine Mary Deasy, whose father was a wealthy brewer and shipbuilder in the town of Clonakilty, County Cork, and John William Clerke (c. 1814–1890), a bank manager of Anglo-Irish descent in Skibbereen, and later a registrar for his brother-in-law, Richard Morgan Deasy, a High-Court judge. Clerke and her younger sister, Agnes, were home-schooled by their parents, particularly by their father in the areas of classical languages and mathematics, which featured heavily in their education. At the age of 27, Clerke moved to Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Brunetière
Ferdinand Brunetière (19 July 1849 – 9 December 1906) was a French writer and critic. Personal and public life Early years Brunetière was born in Toulon, Var, Provence. After school at Marseille, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Desiring a teaching career, he entered for examination at the École Normale Supérieure, but failed, and the outbreak of war in 1870 prevented him trying again. He turned to private tuition and literary criticism. After the publication of successful articles in the ''Revue Bleue'', he became connected with the ''Revue des Deux Mondes'', first as contributor, then as secretary and sub-editor, and finally, in 1893, as principal editor. Career In 1886 Brunetière was appointed professor of French language and literature at the École Normale, a singular honour for one who had not passed through the academic mill; and later he presided with distinction over various conferences at the Sorbonne and elsewhere. He was decorated with the Leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliza Brightwen
Eliza Brightwen née Elder (30 October 1830 – 5 May 1906) was a Scottish naturalist and author. She was self-taught, and many of her observations were made in the grounds of ''The Grove'' in Stanmore, the estate outside London which she shared with her husband during his lifetime and where she lived as a widow. She was described in 1912, as "one of the most popular naturalists of her day". Personal life Eliza Elder was born in 1830 in Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland to Margaret and George Elder, and she had three other siblings. Her mother died in 1837 and her father died in 1853. She was adopted, after her mother died, by her uncle, Alexander Elder, co-founder of Smith, Elder & Co. Elder moved to Streatham to live with her uncle, and then to Stoke Newington. She did not receive a formal education. She expressed interest in natural history as a child and described her youth as "extremely lonely and quiet". In 1855 she married George Brightwen, a banker who then ran a succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Boutmy
Émile Boutmy (13 April 1835 – 25 January 1906) was a French political scientist and sociologist who was a native of Paris. He studied law in Paris, and from 1867 to 1870 gave lectures on the history and culture of civilizations as it pertained to architecture at the ''École Spéciale d'Architecture''. Being shocked by the ignorance and disinterest in regards to political issues that he observed during the Paris Commune, he founded in 1872 the ''Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques'' with important industrialists and academics that included Hippolyte Taine, Ernest Renan, Albert Sorel and Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu. From 1873 to 1890, Boutmy gave classes on the constitutional history of England, France and the United States. In 1879 he was appointed to the ''Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques''. Today the main auditorium of the ''Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris'' (''Sciences Po'') is named in his honor. Selected writings * ''Philosophie de l'architecture en G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Booth
William Booth (10 April 182920 August 1912) was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first "General" (1878–1912). His 1890 book In Darkest England and The Way Out outlining The Salvation Army social campaign became a best-seller. The fundamentalist Christian evangelical movement, with a quasi-military structure and government as founded in 1865, then spread from London, England, to many parts of the world and is known today as one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid. Early life William Booth was born in Sneinton, Nottingham, the second son of five children born to Samuel Booth and his second wife, Mary Moss. Booth's father was relatively wealthy by the standards of the time, but during William's childhood, the family descended into poverty. In 1842, Samuel Booth, who could no longer afford his son's school fees, apprenticed the 13-year-old William Booth to a pawnbroker. Samuel Booth died on 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo De Gubernatis
Count Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–26 February 1913), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times. Life In 1862 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit at Florence, but having married a cousin of the Socialist Bakunin and become interested in his views he resigned his appointment and spent some years in travel. He was reappointed, however, in 1867; and in 1891 he was transferred to the University of Rome La Sapienza. He became prominent both as an orientalist, a publicist and a poet. He maintained close ties with Romanian orientalists. At International Congress of Orientalists from Florence in 1878 he invited Bogdan Petriceicu HaÅŸdeu, a prominent Romanian writer and philologist. He was a good friend with the Romanian Princess Dora d'Istria (Elena Ghica) who collaborated with him at Rivista Orientale. He founded the ' (1862), the ' (1867), the ' and ' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borden Parker Bowne
Borden Parker Bowne (January 14, 1847 – April 1, 1910) was an American Christian philosopher, Methodist minister and theologian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Life Bowne was born on January 14, 1847, near Leonardville in Monmouth County, New Jersey. In 1876 he became a professor of philosophy at Boston University, where he taught for more than thirty years. He later served as the first dean of the graduate school. Bowne was an acute critic of mechanistic determinism, positivism, and naturalism. He categorized his views as Kantianized Berkeleyanism, transcendental empiricism, and, finally, personalism, emphasizing freedom and the importance of the self, a philosophical branch of liberal theology: of this branch Bowne is the dominant figure; this personalism is sometimes called ''Boston personalism'', in contrast with the California personalism of George Holmes Howison. Bowne's ''magnum opus'', ''Metaphysics'', was published in 1882. Bowne was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lansing Raymond
George Lansing Raymond, (September 11, 1839–July 11, 1929) was a prominent professor of Aesthetic Criticism at Princeton University from 1881 to 1905, and author of a new system of esthetics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. He also served as a professor at George Washington University (D.C.) and Williams College (his alma mater). Personal life George Lansing Raymond was born in Chicago on September 3, 1839, the son of Benjamin Wright Raymond, twice Mayor of Chicago. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, graduating in 1858, Williams College, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Society, and Princeton Theological Seminary. He married Mary Elizabeth Blake on July 31, 1872, and they had one child. He died at Garfield Hospital in Washington D.C. on July 11, 1929. Career Raymond was the author of a systematic theory of art published by G.P. Putnam, published in seven volumes during the period 1886 to 1900, and republished as a set of u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Franck (politician)
Louis Marie Fran̤ois Franck (28 November 1868 Р31 December 1937) was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician. Education He was born in Antwerp, and began his education at the ''Koninklijk Atheneum'' (E: Royal Atheneum) of Antwerp, where he was influenced by the Flemish writer and liberal politician Jan van Beers, and he obtained a law degree at the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Universit̩ Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel). As a student, he was one of the co-founders of the secular humanist ''Cercle Universitaire'' (1887), he wrote for the ''Journal des Etudiants'' (1889) and in 1890 he was founder-President of the ''Cercle Universitaire de Criminologie''. Career In 1890, he set up practice as a lawyer in Antwerp and specialized himself in international marine law. As the president of the ''Conf̩rence du Jeune Barreau'' (Young Lawyers' Conference) and as a member of the ''Vlaamse Conferentie der Balie'' (Flemish Bar Association) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
