Alexander William Kinglake
Alexander William Kinglake (born August 5, 1809 in Taunton , Somerset , † January 2, 1891 ) was an English statesman and historian.
Kinglake was educated at Eton College and studied at Cambridge University . He became trustee in London in 1837, but stopped practicing in 1856. 1857-68 he was the Liberal representative for Bridgwater in Parliament, where he stood out for his interpellations and motions on foreign affairs.
His first work, Eothen or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (1844, new edition 1864), an episodic account of his travels to the Orient, caused a sensation and is now one of the classics of English Orient travel literature. His multi-layered but valuable main work is the history of the Crimean War : The invasion of the Crimea (London 1863–75, 5 vols .; 6th ed. 1883, 7 vols.).
literature
- Christoph Bode : Alexander Kinglake, Eothen or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (1844) or How not to be infected. In: Christoph Bode (Ed.): West meets East. Classics of British Orient travel literature (= English Research. Vol. 246). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8253-0521-X , pp. 49-65.
- Alexander William Kinglakes: Eothen - Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (1844). German translation by Bernhard Rubenbauer: Eothen - In the Ottoman Empire (2017). ISBN 978-3-73940-078-5 (letters about a trip to the Orient).
- Ralph Pordzik : Orientalism Reconsidered Yet Again: Alexander Kinglake's Eothen (1844) and the Discourse of Eastern Travel. In: Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Vol. 6, 2007, ISSN 1528-3623 , pp. 305-328.
Web links
- Literature by Alexander William Kinglake in the catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Literature by and about Alexander William Kinglake in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alexander William Kinglake . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 740.
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SURNAME | Kinglake, Alexander William |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English politician, member of the House of Commons and historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1809 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Taunton , Somerset |
DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 1891 |