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Book - Unconventional Biography, William Hazlitt Jr (Translator), The Life of Luther, 1872
... Robert Bridges, and acquired the British rights to Webster's Dictionary. The firm also took over the libraries of the Covent Garden publisher Henry George Bohn, moving into Bohn's former premises at 4 York Street in 1864 a building with its own literary pedigree, having previously belonged to the classics bookseller J. H. Bohte and, before that, to the essayist Thomas de Quincey...Robert Bridges, and acquired the British rights to Webster's Dictionary. The firm also took over the libraries of the Covent Garden publisher Henry George Bohn, moving into Bohn's former premises at 4 York Street in 1864 a building with its own literary pedigree, having previously belonged to the classics bookseller J. H. Bohte and, before that, to the essayist Thomas de Quincey ...
The Life of Luther, written by himself, is not a conventional biography but a compilation of Martin Luther's own words letters, table-talk, and passages drawn from his polemical and dogmatic writings selected, translated into French, arranged in roughly chronological order, and lightly stitched together with narrative commentary by Jules Michelet. It is a biography composed of a series of translations; except for the earliest years, which Luther could not narrate himself, the translator rarely needed to speak in his own voice. The English subject edition is Michelet's French compilation that was first published in Paris in 1835 as Mémoires de Luther, écrits par lui-même and rendered into English by William Hazlitt (1811–1893).
The work traces Luther from his peasant origins and monastic life through his ordination, his journey to Rome, his "temptations" and inner spiritual crises, his break with the papacy, his marriage to the escaped nun Katharina von Bora, and his role at the centre of the Reformation, largely in his own recorded voice, framed by Michelet. Michelet composed the work almost entirely in 1828–29, publishing it in 1835. As the translator of Vico's Scienza Nuova, he felt a need at that time to move from theory to application, to study the general in the individual, history in biography, humanity in one man and Luther was his chosen vehicle: a man complete in thought and action, whose entire life, down to its smallest words and deeds, had been recorded.
Hard cover book. The Life of Luther
Author: M Michelet
Translator: William Hazlitt Jr
Publisher: Bell & Daldy & Co
Date: 1872
Further Information: Green Cloth hardcover with lettering to spine in gilt. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.non-fictionThe Life of Luther, written by himself, is not a conventional biography but a compilation of Martin Luther's own words letters, table-talk, and passages drawn from his polemical and dogmatic writings selected, translated into French, arranged in roughly chronological order, and lightly stitched together with narrative commentary by Jules Michelet. It is a biography composed of a series of translations; except for the earliest years, which Luther could not narrate himself, the translator rarely needed to speak in his own voice. The English subject edition is Michelet's French compilation that was first published in Paris in 1835 as Mémoires de Luther, écrits par lui-même and rendered into English by William Hazlitt (1811–1893).
The work traces Luther from his peasant origins and monastic life through his ordination, his journey to Rome, his "temptations" and inner spiritual crises, his break with the papacy, his marriage to the escaped nun Katharina von Bora, and his role at the centre of the Reformation, largely in his own recorded voice, framed by Michelet. Michelet composed the work almost entirely in 1828–29, publishing it in 1835. As the translator of Vico's Scienza Nuova, he felt a need at that time to move from theory to application, to study the general in the individual, history in biography, humanity in one man and Luther was his chosen vehicle: a man complete in thought and action, whose entire life, down to its smallest words and deeds, had been recorded.warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, shipwrecked-artefact, book, the life of luther, m michelet
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