Alice Calaprice

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Alice Calaprice , also Alice Abeghjan , (born November 15, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German-born American biographer of Albert Einstein and a long-time publisher and editor with Armenian ancestors.

Life

Alice Calaprice was born Alice Braunsfurth in Berlin. Her father was German, her mother Armenian. Her grandfather Artasches Abeghjan (* 1877 in Astapat, Russian Armenia) studied theology at the Philipps University in Marburg with the support of Necessary Love Work and received his doctorate in 1904, published a German-Armenian dictionary and a corresponding grammar as well as a map of modern Armenia and entered as Translator of the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe into the Armenian language . He was honored on an Armenian postage stamp in the 1960s. Alice's father was interned as a prisoner of war in France , while the mother worked for the refugee organization of the United Nations and the Armenian National Committee to Aid Homeless Armenians ( ANCHA ).

In 1963 Alice Abeghjan graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in sociology and a minor degree in Middle Eastern studies.

Her work began in the 1970s when she joined the above-mentioned project and looked through 42,000 documents, scientific articles, speeches, notes, travel diaries and letters at the Einstein Archives in Princeton, NJ . Her husband Frank Calaprice was already a professor of physics at Princeton University at that time, so that she also had access to the matter from this side. With two children and a challenging but secure job, she set to work to create a computer-based index: “I was hired to do a computerized index,” (…) “About 90 percent of the documents were in German, a language I knew from childhood. I also knew computers and some physics jargon. It seemed a perfect fit. ”In this work, her childhood knowledge of the German language also benefited her. After two years the work was successfully completed, whereupon she moved to Princeton University Press as editor. In 1984 she was already Senior Editor there and began working on Collected Papers of Albert Einstein . In doing so, she benefited from the fact that Einstein's former secretary, Helen Dukas, worked with her.

In 1996 Calaprice published her anthology The Quotable Einstein . She was in-house editor of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein , in the Princeton University Press published, as well as its translation project. In 1995 she received the LMP Award for Individual Editorial Achievement in Scholarly Publishing . Since Albert Einstein in particular has been “foisted” on a plethora of quotations, she is considered to be the authority on these issues due to her more than forty years of in-depth study of his literary legacy. Her many years of work as an editor was also praised for other university publishers in other works and source editions such as the Samuel Taylor Coleridge notebooks or Benjamin Spock's letters .

She cultivated her Armenian connection for three years as a delegate to the National AYF Convention and a two-year advisor to Camp Haiastan , Franklin , Massachusetts . In addition, she was the managing director and president of the West Coast AYF Council, translated the German-language process transcript of Soghomon Tehlirian into English and, as a teenager, various Armenian folk tales into English, which were also published.

In the 1980s, she also helped her university colleague Bernd Heinrich and his doctoral student in the field of animal behavioral biology with field research on common ravens ( Corvus corax ), which later had a positive effect on her editing work in biological works.

Her works have been translated into Chinese , German , French , Greek , Hebrew , Indonesian , Japanese , Italian , Korean , Dutch , Lithuanian , Polish , Portuguese , Spanish , Czech and Hungarian .

plant

as an author :

  • with Daniel Kennefick and Robert Schulmann: An Einstein Encyclopedia . Princeton University Press, 2015

as an overworker

  • Bernd Heinrich : A researcher and his owl. (Original title: One man's owl ) Revised by Alice Calaprice. From the American by Susanne Röckel. List Verlag, Munich / Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-471-77892-6 . (also published by Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12576-6 )

as editor

  • The quotable Einstein. Collected and edited by Alice Calaprice. With a foreword by Freeman Dyson , Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1996, ISBN 0-691-02696-3 .
    • Einstein says: quotes, ideas, thoughts. With a foreword by Freeman Dyson. Partial translation from the American and support for the German edition: Anita Ehlers , Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-492-03935-9 . (further German new editions or special editions in 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2007)
  • The Expanded Quotable Einstein. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ / Oxford 2000, ISBN 978-0-691-07021-6 .
  • The new quotable Einstein. Enlarged commemorative edition published on the 100th anniversary of the special theory of relativity / coll. And ed. By Alice Calaprice. With a foreword by Freeman Dyson, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ / Oxford 2005, ISBN 0-691-12074-9 .
  • Dear Professor Einstein. Prometheus 2002
  • The Einstein Almanac. Johns Hopkins University Press 2005.
  • Together with Trevor Lipscombe (Ed.): Albert Einstein: A Biography. Greenwood Biographies, 2005, ISBN 978-0-313-33080-3 .
    • Dear Mr. Einstein ... Albert Einstein answers mail from children. (Original title: Dear Professor Einstein ) Foreword by Evelyn Einstein . Translated from the English by Erdmute Klein . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-37909-8 .
  • The Ultimate Quotable Einstein. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ / Oxford 2011.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artasches Abeghjan: Preliminary questions on the genesis of the ancient Armenian Bible translations. A. Pries, 1906, p. 45.
  2. ↑ On the role of Abeghjan in the Third Reich in the context of the recognition of the Armenians as an “Aryan race”: Uwe Feigel: Das Evangelische Deutschland und Armenien: The Armenian Aid of German Evangelical Christians since the end of the 19th century in the context of German-Turkish relations. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989, p. 292f.
  3. ↑ Hacik Rafi Gazer : Friedrich Loofs and the necessary love work. In: Jörg Ulrich (Ed.): Friedrich Loofs in Halle. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 235ff., Here p. 238ff.
  4. ↑ Artasches Abeghian: New Armenian Grammar. De Gruyter, 1936.
  5. ↑ a b c d Tom Vartabedian: Armenian Scholar Brings Notice to Einstein. In: Armenian Weekley . September 1, 2011. Retrieved from the Google cache on May 22, 2012.
  6. ^ John Roy Carlson: The Armenian Displaced Persons. A First Hand Report on Conditions in Europe . On: tallarmeniantale.com. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
  7. ↑ Princeton Faculty of Physics page
  8. ^ A b c George Kauffman , Laurie Kauffman : Particular Physics. ( Memento from December 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Book review . In: American Scientist , January / February 1998.
  9. ↑ Karen Kelly: The Secret of "The Secret". Sidgwick & Jackson, London 2007, p. 177.
  10. ↑ For example: Holly H. Baggett (Ed.): Dear Tiny Heart: The Letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds . New York University Press, New York 2000, p. XV.
  11. ^ J. William Schopf: Cradle of Life. The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2001, p. XV.
  12. ↑ Kathleen Coburn / Anthony John Harding (eds.): The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Volumge 5, 1827-1834. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002, p. XIX.
  13. ↑ Michael S. Foley (Ed.): Dear Dr. Spock: Letters About the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor. New York University Press, New York 2005, p. XI.
  14. ^ A. James McAdams: Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1993, p. XVII.
  15. ^ Josiah Ober: Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2008, p. XV.
  16. ^ Silvan S. Schweber: In the Shadow of the Bomb: Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the Moral Responsibility. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey / Chichester, West Sussex, 2000. S. XVII.
  17. ↑ Michael G. Morony: Iraq After The Muslim Conquest. Gorgias Press LLC, Piscataway, NJ, 2005, p. IX.
  18. ↑ camphaiastan.org
  19. ↑ John M. Marzluff, Colleen Marzluff: Dog Days, Raven Nights. Yale University Press, New Haven 2011, p. 6.
  20. ↑ See also: Chris Maser, James M. Trappe, Andrew W. Claridge: Trees, Truffles, and Beasts: How Forests Function. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2008, p. XV.
  21. ^ John Tyler Bonner: First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2000, p. XI.
  22. ^ Leon Glass, Michael C. MacKey: From Clocks to Chaos: The Rhythms of Life. Princeton University Press, Princeton / Guildford 1988, p. XII.
  23. ^ HCJ Godfray: Parasitoids: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1993, p. IX.
  24. ↑ Review: Gerald F. Kreyche: The Einstein Almanac. ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: USA Today . July 2005. Retrieved on May 22, 2012. ( THE EINSTEIN ALMANAC ( Memento from June 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
personal data
SURNAME Calaprice, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abeghjan, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Albert Einstein biographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin