Cicely Veronica Wedgwood

Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood , DBE (born July 20, 1910 in Stocksfield , Northumberland , † March 9, 1997 ) was a British historian .

Life

After studying at the University of Oxford ( Bachelor of 1931), she became a specialist in the early 17th century and the English Civil War . She was a tutor at Somerville College . In 1935 she published a biography on Thomas Wentworth and in 1939 another on Oliver Cromwell . In Germany she was best known for her work on the Thirty Years' War , published in 1938 . Wedgwood's works are distinguished by academic scholarship as well as intelligibility and legibility.

In addition to being a scientist, she also worked as a radio writer and translator. Among other things, she translated Elias Canetti's novel Die Blendung from German into English.

She was Honorary Fellow of University College in London and the Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford. In 1959 she received the Goethe badge from the city of Frankfurt am Main . In 1946 she received the Dutch Oranje-Nassau Order . In 1968 she became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) and in 1969 was the third woman ever to be accepted into the Order of Merit (OM).

From 1960 to 1969 she was on the Council of the Victoria and Albert Museum . From 1958 to 1961 she was on the Arts Council. From 1962 to 1968 and from 1969 to 1976 she was a trustee of the National Gallery . From 1953 to 1978 she was on the Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts. From 1972 to 1978 she was President of the British Society of Authors and from 1950 to 1957 of the English section of the Pen Club. She was a member of the Royal Historical Society , the American Historical Association and the Scottish Historical Society, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Letters (since 1966), American Philosophical Society (since 1969), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1973) and the British Academy (since 1975). Wedgwood has received multiple honorary doctorates (Glasgow, Oxford, Harvard, Keele, Sussex, Liverpool, Smith College, Sheffield). From 1952 to 1966 she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton .

Publications

• The thirty years was , 1938
  • The Thirty-Year War. From the English by AG Girschick. List, Munich 1967, new edition ISBN 3-471-79169-8 .
• Oliver Cromwell. 1939.
• William the Silent. 1944.
  • Wilhelm the Silent: Count of Nassau, Prince of Orange. 1533-1584 . Translated into German by Barbara von Sprecher. Zurich: Fretz & Wasmuth, 1949
• Richelieu and the French Monarchy. 1949.
• Seventeenth Century Literature. 1950.
• The Kings Peace. 1955.
• The Kings War. 1956.
• The Trial of Charles I. Macmillan, Collins 1964. Reprinted with a foreword by Clive Holmes: A King Condemned. The Trial and Execution of Charles I. Tauris Parke, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-84885-688-2 .
  • Death to the King: The trial of Charles I . From d. Engl. By Wilhelm Höck. Munich: List, 1968
  • Ways of the mighty . From d. Engl. Transl. by Barbara von Sprecher u. Wilhelm Höck. Munich: List, 1970
• Thomas Wentworth- Earl of Strafford, A revaluation. 1961.
• The world of Rubens. Amsterdam: Time Life 1967.
• The spoils of time
  • The first 5000 years: a world history of mankind . From d. Engl. By Renate Orth-Guttmann. Munich: List, 1987

literature

• Dame CV Wedgwood , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 42/1979 of October 8, 1979, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Austin Woolrych: Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, 1910-1997 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 97 , 1998, pp. 521-534 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Cicely Veronica Wedgwood in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Cicely Veronica Wedgwood  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More beautiful, scarcer, smarter , Der Spiegel 45/1967 of October 30, 1967.
2. ^ Member History: Dame Veronica Wedgwood. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 1, 2019 .