Kapital und Krone

Author(s):  
Jan Eike Dunkhase

AbstractThe article focuses on the founding of the Swabian Schiller Association (renamed German Schiller Society in 1947) within the context of other literary institutions at the end of the 19th century. It argues that the success of the owner of what is today called ‚German Literature Archive Marbach‘ can be traced back to a unique collaboration of capital, kingship, and small-town politics in the late Kingdom of Württemberg.

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-298
Author(s):  
Niels Penke

Abstract This article traces the marks Jens Baggesen has left in German literature and its history. It depicts Baggesen’s relations and strong bounds to his contempories around 1800, the feud with the Romantic poet Achim von Arnim and the gradual shift into oblivion in the progress of the 19th century, and at last the enigmatic glimpse that is given in R.M. Rilkes Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. Moreover it asks for reasons why Baggesen fell through the cracks of literary history, which can be explained through the rising nationalism and the according formation of strict national philologies, to which the bilingual Baggesen emerged as a figure of neither-nor.


1986 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 115-135 ◽  

James Frederic Danielli was born on 13 November 1911 in London. His great-grandfather, Joseph James Danielli, had come to England in the 19th century from his native Italy as an expert woodcarver. Joseph’s eldest son, Arthur, was an artist in stained glass, who spent much of his working life in the Catholic churches and great cathedrals of mainland Europe and in Ireland, living with the priests in the monasteries of the day. (I like to think of that earlier Danielli’s genes remaining in his descendant and giving our Jim Danielli that light and sparkle with which we always associated him.) The second of Arthur’s five children, James Frederic, was the father of our James Frederic, and grew up in London in a strict Catholic enclave, with the children being educated in convents. He was an outstandingly gifted man, endowed with good looks and charm, who went on to a distinguished career in the civil service, being eventually awarded the Imperial Service Order. At the age of 18 he had married Helena Mary Hollins, across religious boundaries. The young couple lived in the Hollins parents’ home in the country village of Alperton, near the then small town of Wembley, where James Frederic was born, followed two years later by his sister Bertha. The two grew up in a comfortable, easy and extremely happy atmosphere as ‘country’ children. They were always well occupied and encouraged to do whatever they were doing to the best of their ability, their father telling them that if they knew they were good at something, they should not be afraid of acknowledging this, an attitude that built confidence.


Prospects ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 197-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Chr. Brøgger

In 1926, President Coolidge delivered an address to the American Association of Advertising Agencies in which he acknowledged and praised the role played by advertising in the economic life of the nation. His speech was fraught with cultural contradictions: one moment he affirmed the traditional values of industry and thrift, and the next moment, almost in the same breath, he heralded the idea of increased spending and consumption. The address reflected the small-town ideology of a government leadership trying to remain convinced that modern-day advertising posed no threat to the 19th-century work ethic. The ideological dividedness of Coolidge's speech brings to mind a man happily sawing away at the branch on which he is sitting. Advertising is “not an economic waste”:[R]ightfully applied, it is the method by which the desire is created for better things. When that once exists, new ambition is developed for the creation and use of wealth.


Schulz/Forum ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Stanisław Rosiek

Nowadays it is impossible to think about Schulz outside Drogobych. Wherever else he showed up, be it Vienna, Marienbad, Kudowa, Zakopane, Warsaw or Paris, he was a refugee, a patient, a visitor or a tourist – always a stranger. And he considered himself one, while others did the same. To an extent, it was his own fault. It could perhaps be otherwise if he did not so often write in his letters (and most likely said in conversations) that he was unable to live and work outside his hometown. But the words of the writer could only encourage others to contribute to a stereotype of a “modest schoolteacher from a small town.” The provincial status of Schulz, however, is not so obvious. At the end of the 19th century, thanks to oil Drogobych reached the end of centuries long stasis from which even the salt mines opened in the Middle Ages could not save it. Oil changed the life of many people in Galicia. Without leaving Drogobych, Schulz could actually watch and personally experience in doses which let him keep his independence and inner stability the rise of a metropolitan mentality described by Georg Simmel. Yet Paris was too much for him – after three weeks he escaped from the French capital with not a single word of commentary. To live in the capital of the 19th century, as Walter Benjamin called it, would have been a torture for him. Thus Schulz did not cancel the opposition of center and periphery, the capital and the provinces, but turned such distinctions upside down. Thanks to writing, the center of the world moved to his hometown so that perhaps Drogobych became the capital of the 20th century.


2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 143-155
Author(s):  
Stefano De Togni

Summary The existence of a mithraeum at Angera (VA, Italy) was assumed for the first time in the 19th century, after the discovery of two Mithraic inscriptions re-used as ornaments of a private garden in the middle of the small town. The location of the alleged mithraeum is still uncertain: the inscriptions have been found out of context, and the place of worship has never been localized. The “Antro mitraico” (Mithraic Cave), also known as “Tana del Lupo”, is a natural cave situated at the base of the East wall of the cliff on which the Rocca Borromeo (the Castle of Angera) stands. At the cave the most visible archaeological evidences are tens of breaches cut into the outside rocky wall, which probably contained votive inscriptions or stele. These elements denote the use of the cave as a place of worship. In 1868 Biondelli identified in the cave the location of a Mithraic cult, giving rise to a theory that continues still today. If, on the one hand, the proposal appeared plausible, there is no clear evidence that in the cave a mithraeum was ever set up; besides, the presence of many an ex voto is in conflict with the mysteric ritual practices. This paper is intended to present an analytical study of the monument, with a broader inquiry on the characteristics of mithraea and other sanctuaries within natural caves.


2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 127-131
Author(s):  
Karol Bílek

The article provides information on the cultural life of the small town of Sobotka near Jičín and its surroundings during the National Revival. In its short introduction, it presents its main cultural activities from the 14th century while focusing on significant figures of the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century: the burgher Raymund Šolc and the priests Antonín Marek, František Vetešník and Damián Šimůnek. It draws particular attention to their libraries and the spread of Czech books. It also mentions other important inhabitants of the town, such as the saleswoman Barbora Pavienská or the shoemaker Josef Novák.


2017 ◽  
Vol 85 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Langhanke

Different types of Low German literacy create varieties in addition to spoken Low German. Their function differs according to the change of language use. By setting the focus on dialectal literature it becomes clear, which concepts of Low German literature became influential since the 19th century. In the recent situation, new perspectives for Low German and its literature can be found in the field of planned language acquisition for example at school. Therefore written forms of Low German become much more important than usually thought of by looking at the ideas of language policy and the development at schools in Northern Germany.


2011 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Shane Tubbs ◽  
Payman Vahedi ◽  
Marios Loukas ◽  
Mohammadali M. Shoja ◽  
Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol

One of the most prolific anatomical writers of the 19th century, Hubert von Luschka made significant contributions to our knowledge of neuroanatomy. His publications and textbooks were standards for their day. However, very little is written of his life in either the English or the German literature. His name lives on eponymously in more than 20 anatomical structures, including those most relevant to the neurosurgeon, the foramina of Luschka and uncovertebral joints. In this article, the authors discuss the life and contributions of this prominent German surgeon and anatomist.


2020 ◽  

Karl Kraus called Austria the “testing facility for the apocalypse”, but also noted that “the streets of Vienna are paved with culture; the streets of other cities with asphalt”. Hugo von Hofmannsthal dismissed the idea that there was an Austrian form of literature as fiction. In his opinion, there was only German literature, into which the works of Austrian writers were subsumed. In this respect, Austria is therefore not a completely straightforward subject. What remains indisputable, however, is that Austria became one of the trendsetters in German-speaking literature and culture from the 19th century onwards. The book ‘Topos Österreich’ (Topos Austria) thus contains studies from the field of literary and cultural studies which focus on modern Austrian literature.


2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Takashi Takekoshi

In this paper, we analyse features of the grammatical descriptions in Manchu grammar books from the Qing Dynasty. Manchu grammar books exemplify how Chinese scholars gave Chinese names to grammatical concepts in Manchu such as case, conjugation, and derivation which exist in agglutinating languages but not in isolating languages. A thorough examination reveals that Chinese scholarly understanding of Manchu grammar at the time had attained a high degree of sophistication. We conclude that the reason they did not apply modern grammatical concepts until the end of the 19th century was not a lack of ability but because the object of their grammatical descriptions was Chinese, a typical isolating language.


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