Thomas Browne (philosopher)
Sir Thomas Browne (born October 19, 1605 in London , † October 19, 1682 in Norwich ) was an English philosopher and poet.
Life
Browne studied at Pembroke College of the University of Oxford and the University of Leiden and settled in 1636 as a general practitioner in Norwich , where he was beaten by Charles II to a Knight Bachelor in 1671 and died on October 19, 1682.
Browne was friends with Arthur Dee .
reception
At the beginning of his collection of voices from historical and contemporary admirers of Sir Thomas Brownes, Manfred Pfister writes the following:
- "For a marginal figure in the English literary canon, who is so caught between all the stools of scientific, philosophical, religious and literary discourse, who cultivates such an eccentric style and thematically so much the distinctive rather than the common and moreover is so committed and unpretentious to the non- As a medical writer, Sir Thomas Browne has enjoyed an astonishing community of admirers over the past four centuries, including authors of the highest canonical rank. This paradox is worth exhibiting in a Musaeum Criticum . "
In 2010, a radio play production entitled musaeum clausum appeared on Bayrischer Rundfunk , in which Ulrich Bassenge processed a posthumous text by Browne about an imaginary museum.
WG Sebald takes part in The Rings of Saturn. An English pilgrimage relating to Browne.
Works (selection)
- Religio medici (London 1643; new edition ibid. 1881), a kind of philosophical creed, distinguished by originality and erudition, which made him accused of atheism
- Pseudodoxia epidemica, or Treatise on vulgar errors (London 1646; new edition 1852), in which he opposed the errors that were most widespread at the time
- Hydriotaphia and the Gardens of Cyrus (1658; new edition by WA Greenhill, London 1896)
- Miscellany tracts (London 1684)
- Posthumous works (London 1712)
- Christian morals (Cambridge 1716; new edition London 1863), collection of aphorisms
Editions and translations
expenditure
- Simon Wilkin (Ed.): Works, including his life and correspondence. 4 volumes. Pickering, London 1835-1836.
- Geoffrey Keynes (Ed.): The Works of Sir Thomas Browne. 5 volumes. Faber & Gwyler, London 1928.
- Robin Robbins (Ed.): Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica. 2 volumes. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1981, ISBN 0-19-812706-5
German translations
- Religio Medici . Translated from English, edited and with an afterword by Werner von Koppenfels . Dieterich, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-87162-044-0 .
- Hydriotaphia - urn burial and other writings. Edited, translated and commented by Manfred Pfister . EDITION SIGNAThUR, Dozwil / Switzerland 2014, ISBN 978-3-906273-00-6 .
literature
- Arno Löffler: Sir Thomas Browne as a virtuoso. The importance of learning for his literary work of old. Carl, Nuremberg 1972, ISBN 3-418-00043-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Browne in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/browne/ Collection of Thomas Brownes works, biography, links
- http://penelope.uchicago.edu/ Extensive website from the University of Chicago
- The Garden of Cyrus
- Browne Musæum clausum in Sebald's The Rings of Saturn
Individual evidence
- ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 246.
- ↑ Musaeum Criticum of some famous readers and admirers of Sir Thomas Brownes (including Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges) in: Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia - Urnenbestattung and other writings, edited, translated and commented on by Manfred Pfister, Dozwil 2014, pp. 415–464
- ↑ https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/programmkalender/sendung-1244522.html
- ↑ WG Sebald: The rings of Saturn. An English pilgrimage. Frankfurt am main 1995, ISBN 3-596-13655-5 ; 17-37, here 20, 28, 31f. 34f, 36f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Browne, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1605 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1682 |
| Place of death | Norwich |