Donald Adamson
Donald Adamson (born March 30, 1939 in Culcheth , Cheshire , GB ) is a British historian , critic and translator of French literature ( Honoré de Balzac , Guy de Maupassant ).
biography
Born the son of a farmer, Adamson was awarded in 1959 the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Magdalen College of Oxford University and from 1959 to 1960, the Zaharoff scholarship. 1971 Adamson was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Oxford for at Jean Seznec at All Souls College wrote doctoral thesis entitled Balzac and the Visual Arts .
From 1969 to 1989 he taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London , before 1989 Visiting Fellow ( guest lecturer ) at Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge was appointed. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), and the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).
Politically, he was involved in the promotion of museums, picture galleries and libraries in the United Kingdom and worked successfully for the creation of the National Heritage Memorial Fund . He is married and has two children.
In 2012/13 he was a Master at the Curriers' Company .
Fonts (selection)
Adamson published research on Pascal , Oskar Kokoschka, and French Romanticism :
- Monographs
- "The Genesis of Le Cousin Pons ", Oxford 1966
- " Blaise Pascal : Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker about God", London and New York 1995
- "Les Romantiques français devant la peinture espagnole", London 1989
- Essays
- “Oskar Kokoschka at Polperro ”, in The Cornish Banner , November 2009, pp. 19–33
- " Pascal 's Views on Mathematics and the Divine", in Mathematics and the Divine: A Historical Study , Amsterdam 2005, pp. 405-421
Awards
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Knight of Justice of the British Order of Saint John
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Knight of the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques
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Cross of Merit of the Order of Malta "Pro Merito Melitensi" ; - Justice of the Peace ( City of London )
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Individual evidence
- ↑ www.burkespeerage.com
- ↑ www.rslit.org ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dr. Donald Adamson on thepeerage.com , accessed September 16, 2016.
- ↑ www.palgrave.com
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adamson, Donald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian, translator and critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Culcheth , Cheshire , United Kingdom |