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Edmund Wilson (other)
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Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) was an American writer and critic. Other people with the name include: * Edmund Wilson (physician) (1583–1633), British physician * Edmund Wilson Sr. (1863–1923), American lawyer and Attorney General of New Jersey * Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856–1939), American zoologist and geneticist See also * Edward Wilson (other) * Edwin Wilson (other) Edwin Wilson may refer to: * B. Edwin Wilson, retired United States Air Force general * Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964), American mathematician * Edwin H. Wilson (1898–1993), American Unitarian and humanist leader * Edwin P. Wilson (1928– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and literary critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes. He influenced many American authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose unfinished work he edited for publication. His scheme for a Library of America series of national classic works came to fruition through the efforts of Jason Epstein after Wilson's death. Early life Wilson was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. His parents were Edmund Wilson Sr., a lawyer who served as New Jersey Attorney General, and Helen Mather (née Kimball). Wilson attended The Hill School, a college preparatory boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1912. At Hill, Wilson served as the editor-in-chief of the school's literary magazine, ''The Record''. From 1912 to 1916, he was educated at Princeton University, where his friends included F. Scott Fitzgerald and war poet John Allan Wyeth. Wilson began his professional writing career as a reporter for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Wilson (physician)
Edmund Wilson MD FRCP (1583 – September 1633) was a Canon of Windsor from 1616 to 1617 and a physician. Family He was the son of William Wilson, Canon of Windsor. Career He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge where he graduated BA in 1601, MA in 1606, MD in 1613. He was appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1615 and practised as a physician in Windsor and London.The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 42 1888, Volume 42. p.177. Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Heritage Books, 1 Dec 1996 He was appointed to the seventh stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gar ... in 1616 and held the canonry until 1617 when he was deprived of it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Wilson Sr
Edmund is a masculine given name or surname in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ''ēad'', meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and ''mund'', meaning "protector". Persons named Edmund include: People Kings and nobles *Edmund the Martyr (died 869 or 870), king of East Anglia *Edmund I (922–946), King of England from 939 to 946 * Edmund Ironside (989–1016), also known as Edmund II, King of England in 1016 * Edmund of Scotland (after 1070 – after 1097) * Edmund Crouchback (1245–1296), son of King Henry III of England and claimant to the Sicilian throne *Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (1249–1300), earl of Cornwall; English nobleman of royal descent *Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), son of King Edward III of England * Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond (1430–1456), English and Welsh nobleman *Edmund, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1803–1873), the last created Austrian field marshal of the 19th century In religion * Saint Edmund ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939) was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks in modern biology, ''The Cell''. Career Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Isaac G. Wilson, a judge, and his wife, Carioline Clark. He graduated from Yale University in 1878. He earned his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1881. He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883–84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884–85. He served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891. In 1888, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. He spent the balance of his career at Columbia University where he was successively adjunct professor of biology (1891–94), professor of invertebrate zoology (1894–1897), and professor of zoology (from 1897). Wilson is credited as America's first cell biologist. In 1898 he used the similarity in embryos to describe phylogene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Wilson (other)
Edward Wilson may refer to: * Ed Wilson (artist) (1925–1996), African American sculptor * Ed Wilson (baseball) (1875–?), American baseball player * Ed Wilson (singer) (1945–2010), Brazilian singer-songwriter *Ed Wilson, American television executive *Ed Wilson, Australian jazz musician, co-leader of Daly-Wilson Big Band *Edward Wilson, clergyman and the founder of Wilson's School, originally in Camberwell, London * E. O. Wilson (born Edward Osborne Wilson, 1929–2021), American entomologist and biologist *Edward "Tug" Wilson (1921–2009), founder and first commander of the Abu Dhabi Defence Force * Edward Adrian Wilson (1872–1912), English Antarctic explorer *Edward E. Wilson (1867–1952), African American lawyer * Edward Junior Wilson (born 1984), Liberian footballer *Edward L. Wilson (born 1931), American civil engineer *Edward Livingston Wilson (1838–1903), American photographer, writer and publisher *Edward Wilson (MP) (1719–1764), English MP for Westmorland *Edwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
