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Secretul Doctorului Honigberger
''The Secret of Dr. Honigberger'' () is a 1940 novella by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. It centres on the search for a 19th-century physician named Johann Martin Honigberger, who disappeared in India while searching for the invisible kingdom Shambhala, as well as his early 20th-century biographer who has also disappeared. Honigberger was a real person, a physician and ethnographer who travelled in Asia in the 19th century. The novella was first published in Romania in 1940 together with Eliade's novella ''Nights at Serampore'', which also revolves around India and has similar supernatural elements. The two novellas were translated into English by William Ames Coates and published in 1970 as ''Two Tales of the Occult'', and in 1986 as ''Two Strange Tales''. A translation by Ana Cartianu was published in 1992 under the title ''Doctor Honigberger's Secret'', as part of the Eliade omnibus volume ''Mystic Stories''. See also * 1940 in literature * Romanian literature Romania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (; – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian History of religion, historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that Hierophany, ''hierophanies'' form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into Sacred-profane dichotomy, sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential.Wendy Doniger, "Foreword to the 2004 Edition", Eliade, ''Shamanism'', p. xiii One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of Eternal return (Eliade), ''eternal return'', which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but (at least in the minds of the religious) actually participate in them. Eliade's literary works belong to the Fantastique, fantastic and Autobiographical n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Martin Honigberger
Johann Martin Honigberger (10 March 1795 – 18 December 1869) was an Imperial Austrian physician and traveller. He travelled through Asia to India and wrote a book on his experiences in the East. A novel based on his life, written by Mircea Eliade in 1940, '' The Secret of Dr. Honigberger'', became popular. Early life Honigberger was born to a Transylvanian Saxon family in Kronstadt which was then part of the Principality of Transylvania. After training in medicine, Honigberger travelled to Constantinople in 1815 and over the following two years he travelled throughout the Levant, Egypt, Arabia and Persia as a government physician. Whilst in Baghdad he learnt of the exploits of four European generals, Jean-François Allard, Paolo Avitabile, Claude Auguste Court and Jean-Baptiste Ventura who had thrived in the service of Maharajah Ranjit Singh. On being told of the need for medical personnel in the army Ranjit Singh was preparing, he obtained a reference letter and set out fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shambhala
Shambhala (, ),Śambhala m. (also written Sambhala): Name of a town (situated between the Rathaprā and Ganges, and identified by some with Sambhal in Moradabad; the town or district of Śambhala is fabled to be the place where Kalki, the last incarnation of Vishnu, is to appear in the family of a Brahmin, Brahman named Vishnu Yash) Mahabharata, MBh. Harivaṃśa, Hariv. Pur. (Monier Monier-Williams, Monier-Williams, ''Sanskrit-English Dictionary'', 1899). also spelled ''Shambala'' or ''Shamballa'' (; ), is a spirituality, spiritual kingdom in Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Shambhala is mentioned in the Kalachakra, ''Kalachakra Tantra''. The Bon scriptures speak of a closely related land called Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring. The Sanskrit name is taken from the name of a city near the Ganges, sometimes identified with Sambhal in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, as mentioned in the Hinduism, Hindu Puranas. The mythological relevance of the place originates with a prophec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
România Literară
''România Literară'' is a cultural and literary magazine from Romania. In its original edition, it was founded on 1 January 1855 by Vasile Alecsandri and published in Iași until 3 December 1855, when it was suppressed. The new series appeared on 10 October 1968 as a continuation of '' Gazeta Literară''. It is the Writers' Union of Romania's official magazine. The magazine is based in Bucharest and is published on a weekly basis. Editors-in-chief * Geo Dumitrescu Geo Dumitrescu (born Gheorghe Dumitrescu; May 17, 1920 – September 28, 2004) was a Romanian poet and translator. Born in Bucharest, his parents were Vasile Oprea (who changed his name to Vasile Dumitrescu), a craftsman and owner of a small ... (1968–1970) * Nicolae Breban (1970–1971) * George Ivașcu (1971–1988) * Dumitru Radu Popescu (1988–1989) * Nicolae Manolescu (1990–present). References External links Official website 1855 establishments in Europe 1855 establishments in the Ottom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers' Union Of Romania
The Writers' Union of Romania (), founded in March 1949, is a professional association of writers in Romania. It also has a subsidiary in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. The Writers' Union of Romania was created by the communist regime by taking over the former Romanian Writers' Society (''Societatea Scriitorilor Români''), which had been established in 1908. The Union organizes the annual Days and Nights of Literature Festival, and the awarding of the prestigious Ovid Prize for Literature. Presidents * Zaharia Stancu (active, 1949–1956) * Mihail Sadoveanu (honorary, 1949–1956; active, 1956–1961) * Mihai Beniuc (1962–1964) * Demostene Botez (1964–1966) * Zaharia Stancu (1966–1974) * (1974–1978) * George Macovescu (1978–1982) * Dumitru Radu Popescu (1982–1990) * Mircea Dinescu (1990–1996) * (1996–2000) * (2000–2005) * Nicolae Manolescu (2005–) Tudor Arghezi was honorary president from 1962 to 1967, as was Victor Eftimiu in 1972; Ștef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WorldCat
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC, Inc. Many of the OCLC member libraries collectively maintain WorldCat's database, the world's largest bibliographic database. The database includes other information sources in addition to member library collections. OCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries, but the catalog is the foundation for other subscription OCLC services (such as resource sharing and collection management). WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. , WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, and the WorldCat persons dataset ( mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people. History OCLC was founded in 1967 under the leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Cartianu
Ana Cartianu (19 April 1908 – 24 April 2001) was a Romanian academic, essayist and translator. Biography She was born in the village of in Horezu commune, Vâlcea County. She studied at Bedford College, London (1928–32), and received her degree from the Literature Department, School of English Studies of Cernăuți University in 1934. In 1936, she co-founded the School of English Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest, where she would later be Dean of the School of Germanic Languages (1948-1970). Ana Cartianu is known as the "great dame of English studies in Romania". In 1930, she married Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu, a university professor. Her maiden name was Tomescu. She died in Bucharest in 2001. Awards *Romanian Writers' Union Award for translations from Romanian (1973) Books (selection) * ''An Advanced Course in Modern Rumanian'' (co-author, with Leon Levițchi, Virgiliu Ștefănescu-Drăgănești), București, Ed. Științifică, (1958) (1964) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1940. Events *January – The English literary magazine ''Horizon'' first appears in London, with Cyril Connolly, Peter Watson and Stephen Spender contributing. *February – The Canadian writer Robertson Davies leaves the Old Vic repertory company in the U.K. *March 11 – Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey for the Gulf of California on a marine invertebrate collecting expedition. *April – Máirtín Ó Cadhain is interned by the Irish government at Curragh Camp, as a member of the Irish Republican Army. *May 14 – The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the surrender of the main Dutch forces to Nazi German invaders. This evening, the gay Dutch Jewish writer Jacob Hiegentlich takes poison, dying four days later aged 33. *June 5 – The English novelist J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio ''Postscript'', "An excursion to hell", on the BBC Home Servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Literature
Romanian literature () is the entirety of literature written by Romanian authors, although the term may also be used to refer to all literature written in the Romanian language or by any authors native to Romania. Early Romanian literature includes religious texts and historical chronicles written in Old Church Slavonic. Romanian literature throughout history has been influenced both by international European movements, such as Humanism and Enlightenment, and by the local geopolitical context and major national events such as the Unification of Moldavia and Wallachia and the Union of Transylvania with Romania. In addition to literature created by individual authors, Romania also has a rich tradition of folk literature which is part of the Romanian folklore. In 2009, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Herta Müller. Romanian literature achieved its golden age during the interwar period, and several authors of the 20th century, gained international recognition, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Fantasy Novels
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar became a Roman Consul. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 days. * First year of the ''Xingping'' era during the Han Dynasty in Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Novellas
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