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List Of Greek Nobel Laureates And Nominees
As of 2023, Greece has produced 2 Nobel laureates and both in the field of literature. Laureates Nominations Nominees Notes References References {{Nobel Prizes Lists of Nobel laureates by nationality, Greek Lists of Greek people, Nobel laureates Greek Nobel laureates, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literature
Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electronic literature, digital writing. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed.; see also Homer. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. It can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literary criticism is one of the oldest academic disciplines, and is concerned with the literary merit or intellectual significance of specific texts. The study of books and other texts as artifacts or traditions is instead encompassed by textual criticism or the history of the book. "Literature", as an art form, is sometimes used synonymously with literary fiction, fiction written with the goal of artistic merit, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905 Nobel Prize In Literature
The 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Polish novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer."The Nobel Prize in Literature 1905 nobelprize.org He was given the prize on 10 December 1905. He is the first Polish author to win the Nobel Prize in the literary category and the second Polish citizen to win in general after the chemist Maria Skłodowska Curie in 1903. He was followed by Władysław Reymont in 1924. Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz is best known for his epic historical novels. He began writing ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 Nobel Prize In Literature
The 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations." He is the first and remains only the Belgian recipient of the prize.Maurice Maeterlinck britannica.com Laureate Maeterlinck was a symbolist and agnostic who explored the inner lives of pe ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parnassos Literary Society
The Parnassos Literary Society () was founded in 1865 in Athens and has published various magazines. The oldest literary society in mainland Greece, it continues to be active today. The Society was founded on 24 June 1865 by the four children of the numismatist to contribute to the spiritual, social, and moral improvement of the Greek people through its events. Its first president was Michael Lambros. The club quickly became well-known, and functioned as a sort of Academy with literary, archaeological, legal, artistic and even scientific sections. It organized lectures, exhibitions, and various competitions. In 1872, at the suggestion of S. Vassiliadis, it opened a night school for destitute children. The historian Constantine Paparrigopoulos became honorary chairman. It was officially recognized as a nonprofit organization by the Greek state on March 17, 1875. The club is now housed in a private mansion on the St. George Square designed by Ifikratis Kokkidis (Ιφικράτ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavlos Karolidis
Pavlos Karolidis or Karolides (, c. 1849 – 26 July 1930) was a Greek historian who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Life Karolidis was born in 1849 in the village of Androniki (, now a suburb of Kayseri) in Cappadocia. His father Konstantinos Karolidis or Karloglou was a wealthy landowner and wheat merchant. Like many Cappadocian Greeks, Karolidis' first language was Ottoman Turkish, but he was educated at Greek schools, including two of the premier Greek institutions of the Ottoman Empire, the Great School of the Nation in Constantinople and the Evangelical School of Smyrna. In 1867 he enrolled in the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens, and in 1870 he went to Germany on a scholarship. He studied at the universities of Munich, Strasbourg and Tübingen and was awarded his doctorate in 1872. On his return from Germany, he initially taught in the Greek high schools of Pera and Chalcedon. In 1876 he went to Smyrna to teach at the Evangeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Nobel Prize In Literature
The 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940) "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings." She became the first woman and first Swede to be awarded the prize. Laureate Selma Lagerlöf's authorship is deeply rooted in folk tales, legends, and stories from her home district in Värmland County, Sweden. Her début novel, '' Gösta Berling's Saga'' (1891), broke away from the then-prevailing realism and naturalism and is characterized by a vivid imagination. Even so, her works provide realistic depictions of people's circumstances, ideas, and social lives during the 19th-century religious revival. Lagerlöf wrote in prose and her stories characterized by a captivating descriptive power and their language by purity and clarity. Among her significant novels include ''Jerusalem'' (1901–02), '' Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige'' ("The Wonderful Adventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1908 Nobel Prize In Literature
The 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German philosopher Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846–1926) "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and developed an idealistic philosophy of life."The Nobel Prize in Literature 1905 nobelprize.org He is the second German to be awarded the prize and the first to be a recipient. Laureate Rudolf Eucken centered his philosophy on the human experience. He maintained that man is the meeting place of nature and spirit and that it is man's ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgios Hatzidakis
Georgios Nicolaou Hatzidakis, aka Georgios Nikolaou Chatzidakis (; , in Myrthios, Ottoman Crete – 28 June 1941, in Athens) was a Greek philologist, who is regarded as the father of linguistics in Greece. He was the first chair of Linguistics and Indian Philology at the University of Athens in 1890–1923. Life and work His family was traditionally part of the Cretan revolts against the Ottoman Empire. His grandfather Kyriakos had taken part as a captain in the uprising of 1821. After his schooling at Rethymno, Georgios at the age of 18 fought himself by the side of his father in the uprising of 1866. After a three-year school visit in Athens, Chatzidakis was enrolled at the faculty of philosophy of the University of Athens for classical philology. In 1877, he won in a university competition a scholarship for linguistics study in Germany, which he pursued afterwards at the University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1912 Nobel Prize In Literature
The 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German dramatist and novelist Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1949) "primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art." He is the fourth German author to become a recipient of the prize after Paul Heyse in 1910.Gerhart Hauptmann britannica.com Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann achieved prominence as one of the pioneers of German Naturalism. Naturalism emphasizes observation and determinism as key concepts. ''Vor Sonnenaufgang'' ("Before Sunrise"), a drama he wrote in 1889, launched his career and received critical acclaim at the same time and was followed by other successful plays such as ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaos Levidis
Nikolaos M. Levidis (), born 25 August 1868, date of death unknown) was a Greek shooter in the 1896 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in Corfu. Levidis competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens in the free rifle event. His place and score in the event are not known, though he did not finish in the top five. Sixteen years later at the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad () and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 6 July and 22 July 1912. The opening ceremony was he ... he participated in the following events: * 300 metre military rifle, three positions – fourth place * Team 25 metre small-bore rifle – fourth place * Team 50 metre small-bore rifle – fifth place * Team military rifle – seventh place * 100 metre running deer, single shots – 15th place * 25 metre small-bore rifle – 30th place * 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 Nobel Prize In Literature
The 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." He is the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and being aged 41, is its youngest recipient to date. Laureate Rudyard Kipling praised the British colonial empire in his works as a poet, short story author, journalist, and novelist, which made his poetry well-liked in the British Army. Children all across the globe have grown to know and love him as a result of ''The Jungle Book'' (1894), especially because of Disney's 1967 motion picture adaptation. The Swedish Academy said that Kipling's human portraits and social environment descriptions that "penetrate to the substance of things" rather than merely repeating the fleeting" were his distinctive qualities. His classic literary w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syros
Syros ( ), also known as Siros or Syra, is a Greece, Greek island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is south-east of Athens. The area of the island is and at the 2021 census it had 21,124 inhabitants. The largest towns are Ermoupoli, Ano Syros, and . Ermoupoli is the capital of the island, the Cyclades, and the South Aegean. It has always been a significant port town, and during the 19th century it was even more significant than Piraeus. Other villages are Galissas, Foinikas, Pagos, Manna, Kini, Azolimnos Syros, Azolimnos and Poseidonia. Ermoupoli Ermoupoli () stands on a naturally amphitheater, amphitheatrical site, with neo-classical buildings, old mansions, and white houses cascading down to the harbour. It was built during the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s. The city hall is in the center of the town, in Miaoulis Square, ringed with cafés, seating areas, and palm trees. Dubbed the "City of Hermes", Syros has numerous churches, such as Metamorphosis, Koimisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
