Michael Joseph Quin

Michael Joseph Quin (* 1796 in Thurles , † February 19, 1843 in Boulogne-sur-Mer ) was an Irish journalist and travel writer .

Life

Journalistic activity

Born in Thurles , Tipperary County , the third son of the distiller Morty Quin , he attended Trinity College in Dublin from 1811 , which has been open to Catholics since 1793. After graduating, he went to London , where he was accepted into the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn , one of the four English bar associations, in 1818 . However, he subsequently did not work as a lawyer, but worked as a journalist and political reporter. He made several trips, which are discussed separately below.

Quin was the editor of the Monthly Review between 1825 and 1832 , during which time he also wrote many articles for the Morning Chronicle . The weekly magazine The Catholic Journal, which Quin also published, had to stop its publication after a year. Since 1826 Quin was a member of the British Catholic Association. His name remains most closely associated with the founding (1836) of the Dublin Review , which would soon become the most influential Catholic magazine in Britain. However, Quin gave up editing after only two numbers because the project was not financially attractive. In 1842 he briefly edited The Tablet , again a Catholic magazine.

Quin was married to the stepdaughter of Edward Wallis of Burton Grange, York. The couple had three daughters. After a long and serious illness, he died of a lung disease in Boulogne-sur-Mer.

to travel

In the second half of 1822 and the first four months of 1823 Quin traveled through Spain . He stayed in Madrid for a long time , but went to Andalusia after King Ferdinand VII withdrew to Seville in March 1823 . Spain experienced a turbulent period since 1820 - the so-called Trienio Liberal - which is why Quin's descriptions aroused particular interest. He reported from Spain for the Morning Herald ; later his reports appeared in book form (also in German translation).

His translations of the memoirs of Ferdinand VII and the biography of  Agustín de Iturbide must also be regarded as further results of Quin's trip to Spain .

In the late autumn of 1834 Quin traveled on the Danube towards European Turkey (modern Bulgaria ). At first he was in the company of Count Széchenyi on the new steamship Argo and visited Hüseyin Pascha, the Turkish governor of Vidin , with him . Between Vidin and Lom , however, their steamer ran onto its sandbank and could not be made afloat within a short time. Quin was forced to continue to Ruse on a small boat , but he had to abandon his original plan to sail the Danube to the Danube Delta . Nevertheless, he was the first Englishman who had covered a section of the Danube steamship service, which had only been newly established in the spring of 1834, on the Lower Danube.

In Ruse (October) Quin procured bridles and post horses and then began the overland journey to Constantinople . Quin's book about this trip - A Steam Voyage Down the Danube (1835) - is therefore only partially a report on a trip on a Danube steamer. The book was nevertheless a great success and appeared not only in other English, but also in German and French. In fact, it was the first manual that future tourists could use to plan a trip on the Lower Danube.

Fonts

• 1823: A Visit to Spain; Detailing the Transactions which Occurred during a Residence in that Country, in the Latter Part of 1822, and the First Four Months of 1823. With an Account of the Removal of the Court from Madrid to Seville; and General Notices of the Manners, Customs, Costume, and Music of the Country . London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. ( BibliotecaVirtualAndalucía ) ( archive )
  • Second edition 1824: A Visit to Spain; Detailing the Transactions which Occurred during a Residence in that Country, in the Latter Part of 1822, and the First Four Months of 1823. With General Notices of the Manners, Customs, Costume, and Music of the Country. Second edition . London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. ( Google )
  • German edition 1824: MJ Quin's visit to Spain in 1822 and 1823. Translated from the English by Georg Lotz . Braunschweig: GCE Meyer ( Google )
• 1824: Memoirs of Ferdinand VII. King of the Spains. By Don *****, Advocate of the Spanish Tribunals. Translated from the Original Spanish Manuscript . London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. ( Google )
  • French edition 1824: Mémoires historiques sur Ferdinand VII, Roi des Espagnes, et sur les événemens de son règne (…). MGH Paris: P. Mongie Aîné ( Google )
  • Spanish edition 1840: Memorias historicas sobre Fernando VII, Rey de España, publicadas en ingles y en frances por Michael J. Quin: Síguense el Ecsámen crítico de la revolucion de España de 1820 á 1823, y España en el siglo diez y nueve, por Mr. Luis de Carné . Ex. D. Joaquin García Jimenez. 3 volumes. Valencia: Gimeno (Google: Volume I )
• 1824: A Statement of Some of the Principal Events in the Public Life of Don Agustin de Iturbide, Written by Himself. With a Preface by the Translator, and an Appendix of Documents . London: John Murray ( Google )
  • French edition 1824: Mémoires autographes de Don Augustin Iturbide, ex-Empereur du Mexique (…). Ex. JT Parisot. Paris: Bossange Frères ( Google )
• 1833: The Trade of Banking in England; Embracing the Substance of the Evidence taken before the Street Committee of the House of Commons (...). London: Butterworth ( Google )
• 1834: A Pamphlet on the Proposed Abolition of Local Probate Courts
• 1834: An Examination of the Grounds upon which the Ecclesiastical and Real Property Commissioners and a Committee of the House of Commons, have Proposed the abolition of the Local Courts of Testamentary Jurisdiction, Second Edition . London: J. Ridgway ( Google )
• 1835: A Steam Voyage Down the Danube: With Sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, Turkey, & c. London: Richard Bentley
  • Second edition ( Revised and Corrected ): 2 volumes. London: Richard Bentley (archive: Volume I - Volume II )
  • Third expanded edition 1836 (Paris): A Steam Voyage Down the Danube. With Sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, Turkey, etc. Third Edition. With additions . Paris: A. and W. Galignani and Co. ( Google )
  • Third expanded edition 1836 (London): A Steam Voyage Down the Danube. With Sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, Turkey, & c. Third Edition, with Additions . 2 volumes: London: Richard Bentley (Google: Volume I - Volume II ) (archive Farbscan: Volume I - Volume II)
  • American edition 1836: A Steam Voyage Down the Danube, with Sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, Turkey, & c. First American, from the Third London Edition . New York: Theodore Foster ( Google ) ( archive color scan )
  • German edition 1836: Steam boat trip on the Danube and sketches from Austria, Hungary, Wallachia, Serbia, Turkey, Greece etc. Translated from the English. 2 volumes. Leipzig: Literary Museum
  • French edition 1836: Voyage sur le Danube, de Pest à Routchouk [!] , Par navire à vapeur, et notices sur la Hongrie, de la Valaquie, de la Servie, de la Turquie et de la Grèce . J.-B. Eyriès. 2 volumes. Paris: Arthus-Bertrand (Google: Volume I - Volume II )
• 1838: Nourmahal, to Oriental Romance . 3 volumes. London: Henry Colburn (Google: Volume I - Volume II - Volume III )
• 1839: A Letter to the House of Commons, on Railways in Ireland . London: Ridgway ( Google )
• 1839: Translation of Laborde's Petra . London
• 1843: Steam Voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, & the Rhine; With Railroad Visits to the Principal Cities of Belgium, & c. & c. 2 volumes. London: Henry Colburn (Google: Volume I - Volume II )
• 1843 (posthumously): Steam Voyages on the Moselle, the Elbe, and the Lakes of Italy; Together with Notices of Thuringia and Saxon Switzerland . 2 volumes.

Web links

Wikisource: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) / Michael Joseph Quin  - Sources and full texts (English)

Wikisource: Quin, Michael Joseph (DNB00)  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Michael J. Quin, Esq." In: Sylvanus Urban (Ed.): The Gentleman's Magazine . April 1843, p. 438 .