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John Ormsby (translator)
John Ormsby (1829–1895) was a nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish translator. He is most famous for his 1885 English translation of Miguel de Cervantes' '' Don Quixote de la Mancha'', perhaps the most scholarly and accurate English translation of the novel up to that time. It is so precise that Samuel Putnam, who published his own English translation of the novel in 1949, faults Ormsby for duplicating Cervantes' pronouns so closely that the meaning of the sentences sometimes becomes confusing. Life He was born at Gortnor Abbey, co. Mayo, on 25 April 1829, was the eldest son of George Ormsby (died 1836), a captain in the 3rd dragoons and high sheriff of co. Mayo in 1827, and his wife Marianne, third daughter of Humphrey Jones of Mullinabro, co. Kilkenny. He was a direct descendant of the Ormsby family which migrated from Lincolnshire to co. Mayo in the reign of Elizabeth I. On the death of both parents during his childhood, he was placed under the guardianship of Denis Brown, dean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gortnor Abbey
Gortnor Abbey, officially Jesus and Mary College, is a co-educational Catholic secondary school in Crossmolina, County Mayo, Ireland. Located near Lough Conn, it is run by the Convent of Jesus and Mary. The school was established in 1912. As of 2024, it had an enrollment of over 620 pupils. Notable people * Margaret Heneghan (b. 1959) - retired High Court judge * Mary Langan (b. 1948) - Roman Catholic nun awarded the Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam by the Government of Pakistan for her services in the field of education. * Niamh O'Malley - artist * Michael Moyles (b. 1977) - Gaelic footballer for Mayo. * Deirdre Purcell Deirdre Purcell (1945 – 13 February 2023) was an Irish author, actress, and journalist. Early life and career Deirdre Purcell was born in 1945 in Dublin, where she was also raised. She was educated at Gortnor Abbey in County Mayo. An Abbey T ... (1945-2023) - Irish author * Marc Roberts (b. 1968) - singer * Stephen Rochford (b. 1978) - Gaelic footballer and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grivola
The Grivola (IPA ʁivola 3,969 m) is a mountain in the Graian Alps in Italy. It lies between the Valsavarenche and the Cogne Valley. Etymology Grivola was named in different ways in the past: * Pic de Cogne * Grivolet * Bec de Grivola * Aiguille de Grivola "Grivola" firstly appeared in 1845. Giuseppe Giacosa says it comes from Valdôtain ''griva'', meaning song thrush (). Joseph-Marie Henry indicated ''grivoline'' (), a pretty young girl, as for Jungfrau. Paul-Louis Rousset says that the origin is ''gri'' in Valgrisenche Valdôtain, meaning "loose stones". SOIUSA classification According to SOIUSA (''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps'') the mountain is classified in the following way: * main part = Western Alps * major sector = North-Western Alps * section = Graian Alps * subsection = North-eastern Graian Alps * supergroup = Catena del Gran Paradiso * group = Gruppo Grivola-Gran Serra * subgroup = Sottogruppo della Grivola * code = I/B-7.IV-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 Deaths
Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of treason. * January 6 – The Wilcox rebellion, an attempt led by Robert Wilcox to overthrow the Republic of Hawaii and restore the Kingdom of Hawaii, begins with royalist troops landing at Waikiki Beach in O'ahu and clashing with republican defenders. The rebellion ends after three days and the remaining 190 royalists are taken prisoners of war. * January 12 – Britain's National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. * January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 15 – A warehouse fire and dynamite explosion kills 57 people, including 13 firefighters in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1829 Births
Events January–March * January 19 – Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann, August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ''Goethe's Faust, Faust'' premieres in Braunschweig. * February 27 – Battle of Tarqui: Troops of Gran Colombia and Peru battle to a draw. * March 11 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's ''St Matthew Passion'' since the latter's death in 1750, in Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach. * March 21 – The bloodless Wellington–Winchilsea duel takes place at Battersea near London * March 22 – Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire in the London Protocol (1829), London Protocol, signed by Russian Empire, Russia, France and Britain, effectively ending the Greek War of Independence. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the three Great Powers. * March 31 – Pope Pius VIII succeeds Pope Leo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quarterly Review
The ''Quarterly Review'' was a literary and political periodical founded in March 1809 by London publishing house John Murray. It ceased publication in 1967. It was referred to as ''The London Quarterly Review'', as reprinted by Leonard Scott, for an American edition. Early years Initially, the ''Quarterly'' was set up primarily to counter the influence on public opinion of the ''Edinburgh Review''. Its first editor, William Gifford, was appointed by George Canning, at the time Foreign Secretary, later Prime Minister. Early contributors included Secretaries of the Admiralty John Wilson Croker and Sir John Barrow, Poet Laureate Robert Southey, poet-novelist Sir Walter Scott, Italian exile Ugo Foscolo, Gothic novelist Charles Robert Maturin, and the essayist Charles Lamb. Under Gifford, the journal took the Canningite liberal-conservative position on matters of domestic and foreign policy, if only inconsistently. It opposed major political reforms, but it supported the gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Edward Watts
Henry Edward Watts (15 October 1826 – 7 November 1904) was a British journalist and author on Spanish topics. Life Born at Calcutta on 15 October 1826, he was son of Henry Cecil Watts, head clerk in the police office there, and his wife Emily Weldon. He was educated at a private school in Greenwich, and then at Exeter grammar school. At age 20 he returned to Calcutta. After working as a journalist for some years, Watts went to Australia in search of an elder brother who had gone to the gold-diggings. After an unsuccessful venture in mining, he joined the staff of the '' Melbourne Argus'', and became its editor in 1859. Back in England, Watts worked for a short-lived Liberal newspaper at York, where he contracted smallpox. He moved on to London, and around 1868 joined the ''Standard'', acting as leader-writer and sub-editor in the colonial and literary departments. At this period he was also home correspondent for the ''Melbourne Argus''. Watts occupied rooms in Pall Mall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander James Duffield
Alexander James Duffield (1821–1890) was an English mining engineer, Hispanist and writer. Life Duffield was born at Tettenhall, near Wolverhampton in Staffordshire. He married and emigrated to South America, spending some years in Bolivia and Peru as a mining chemist, and learning Spanish. He had plans, which proved unsuccessful, to introduce alpacas into Australia, several times visited Brisbane, and reported to the Queensland government on labour for the sugar plantations. Subsequently, he travelled in Spain and other countries, and for some time held an appointment under the government of Canada. Works Duffield published: *''Masston: a Story of these Modern Days'' (London, 1877), novel, with Walter Herries Pollock. *''Peru in the Guano Age: being a short Account of a recent Visit to the Guano Deposits, with some Reflections on the Money they have produced and the Uses to which it has been applied'' (1877). *''Needless Misery at Home and abounding Treasure in the West und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Books Of The Western World
''Great Books of the Western World'' is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context; it must be rewarding to re-read repeatedly with respect to liberal education; and it must be a part of "the Great Conversation, great conversation about the great ideas", relevant to at least 25 of the 102 "Great Ideas" as identified by the editor of the series's comprehensive index, the ''Syntopicon'', to which they belonged. The books were chosen not on the basis of ethnic and cultural inclusiveness (historical influence being seen as sufficient for inclusion), nor on whether the editors agreed with the authors' views. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascual De Gayangos
Pascual de Gayangos y Arce (June 21, 1809 – October 4, 1897) was a Spanish scholar and orientalist. Life Born in Seville, Gayangos was the son of Brigadier José de Gayangos, intendente of Zacatecas, in New Spain (Mexico). After completing his primary education in Madrid, at the age of thirteen, he was sent to school at Pont-le-Voy near Blois. There, he began the study of Arabic in the École spéciale des Langues orientales of Paris under Silvestre de Sacy. Gayangos visited Britain, where he married Frances, daughter of Henry Revell, in 1828. He then obtained a post in the Spanish treasury, and was transferred to the foreign office as translator in 1833. In 1837, Gayangos returned to Britain, wrote extensively in British periodicals, like ''The Athenaeum'', and in publications of the SDUK, like ''The Penny Cyclopaedia for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge'' and ''The Biographical Dictionary''. In these years he completed his magnum opus as an arabist: the translat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poem Of The Cid
''El Cantar de mio Cid'', or ''El Poema de mio Cid'' ("The Song of My Cid"; "The Poem of My Cid"), is an anonymous '' cantar de gesta'' and the oldest preserved Castilian epic poem. Based on a true story, it tells of the deeds of the Castilian hero and knight in medieval Spain Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar—known as El Cid—and takes place during the eleventh century, an era of conflicts in the Iberian Peninsula between the Kingdom of Castile and various Taifa principalities of Al-Andalus. It is considered a national epic of Spain. The work survives in a medieval manuscript which is now in the Spanish National Library. Origin The Spanish medievalist Ramón Menéndez Pidal included the ''Cantar de mio Cid'' in the popular tradition he termed the '' mester de juglaría''. ''Mester de juglaría'' refers to the medieval tradition according to which popular poems were passed down from generation to generation, being changed in the process. These poems were meant to be performed in publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
