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E. W. Dickes
Ernest Walter Dickes (19 March 1876 – 26 July 1957), most commonly known as E. W. Dickes, was an English journalist for the ''Manchester Guardian'', and translator of more than 70 books.'OBITUARY: Mr E. W. Dickes', ''The Manchester Guardian'', p. 2 Biography Dickes was the eldest son of Walter James Dickes and Sarah Anne Dickes. Born in Camberwell, London, he was educated at the City of London School. He became a civil servant in the Admiralty for 20 years, and spent five years as a dockyard secretary in Malta. In 1915, as deputy cashier at Portsmouth Dockyard, he was charged with being in possession of false documents. The following year, as a conscientious objector, he came to the attention of the House of Commons. He spent two years in prison, during which time he learnt Esperanto. After the war he joined the ''Manchester Guardian'' as a journalist, amongst other things serving as an in-house translator from French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, Lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main newspr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Latzko
Andreas Latzko ( hu, Latzkó Andor; 1 September 1876, in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary – 11 September 1943, in Amsterdam, Netherlands) was an Austro-Hungarian pacifist of Jewish origin, a novelist and biographer. Early life Andreas Latzko attended grammar school and high school in Budapest. After high school, he served in the Imperial and Royal Austria-Hungary, Austria-Hungarian army as a one-year volunteer and was a reserve officer of the ''Ersatzheer''. He then went to Berlin, where he first studied chemistry and then philosophy at the University of Berlin. Career beginnings Latzko wrote his first literary works in Hungarian. His first in German, a one-act play, was published in Berlin. He also worked as a journalist, traveling to Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, Ceylon and Java. World War I and its aftermath In August 1914, at the beginning of World War I, he returned to Egypt and served as an officer in the Imperial and Royal ''Wehrmacht'' of Austria-Hungary. With the begin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
