Arthur Helps
Sir Arthur Helps KCB (born July 10, 1813 in Streatham , † March 7, 1875 in London ) was an English writer .
Life
Helps studied at Cambridge University , then was the private secretary of the then Treasury Secretary Thomas Spring Rice , later of George Howard, Lord Morpeth while he was Secretary of State for Ireland , took the place of WL Bathurst in 1859 as Secretary of the Secret Council of State . In 1871 he was promoted to Companion and in 1872 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath . He died in London on March 7, 1875.
Works
He began his writing career in 1841 with “Essays, written in the intervals of business”, which were followed at longer intervals: “The claims of labor” (1847); "Companions of my solitude" (1850); "The conquerors of the new world and their bondsmen" (1852, 2 vols.); “Friends in council” (1854, 2 vol .; new series 1857), in which important questions of politics and social reform are dealt with in dialogue; "The Spanish conquest in America" (1855-61, 4 vols.); "Organization in daily life" (1862); "The life of Las Casas" (1868); "The life of Pizarro" (1869); “Realmah” (1869, 2 vols.); "Brevia: short essays and aphorisms" (2nd ed. 1871); "Conversations on war and general culture" (1871); "Thoughts upon government" (1871); "The life of Hernando Cortes and the conquest of Mexico" (1871, 2 vols.); "Talk about animals and their masters" (1873); "Life and labor of Thomas Brassey" (5th ed. 1876) and "Social pressure" (1875). Among his works of fiction we mention the tragedy “Oulita the serf” (1858, 2nd edition 1873) and the historical novel “Ivan de Biron, or the Russian court” (1874).
Web links
- Literature by and about Arthur Helps in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Arthur Helps in Project Gutenberg ( currently usually not available for users from Germany )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Help, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helps, Sir Arthur (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Streatham |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1875 |
| Place of death | London |