Jacques Barzun (1907–2012)
Forfatter af From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life—1500 to the Present
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Jacques Barzun was born in Créteil, France on November 30, 1907. He came to the United States in 1920 and graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1927. Following graduation, he joined Columbia's faculty as an instructor while continuing his studies in graduate school there, receiving vis mere a master's degree in 1928 and a doctorate in French history in 1932. He became a full professor in 1945, was dean of graduate faculties from 1955 to 1958, and dean of faculties from 1958 to 1967. He retired from Columbia University in 1975. He was a historian and cultural critic. The core of his work was the importance of studying history to understand the present and a fundamental respect for intellect. Although he wrote on subjects as diverse as detective fiction and baseball, he was especially known for his many books on music, nineteenth-century romanticism and education. His works include Darwin, Marx and Wagner: Critique of a Heritage; Romanticism and the Modern Ego; The House of Intellect; Race: A Study in Superstition; Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers; A Stroll with William James; The Culture We Deserve; and From Dawn to Decadence. He died on October 25, 2012 at the age of 104. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: "With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Værker af Jacques Barzun
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life—1500 to the Present (2000) 3,681 eksemplarer
A Company of Readers : Uncollected Writings of W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from the Reader's… (2001) 120 eksemplarer
Pleasures of Music: An Anthology of Writing About Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw (Phoenix Book) (1951) 88 eksemplarer
The Modern Researcher [original ed.] 5 eksemplarer
Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints About the Twentieth Century (Maury A. Bromsen lecture in humanistic… (1976) 4 eksemplarer
The French race : theories of its origins and their social and political implications prior to the revolution (1932) 3 eksemplarer
Is Democratic Theory for Export (Morgenthau Memorial Leture on Ethics and Foreign Policy, No. 6) (1986) 2 eksemplarer
Visual outline of English history 2 eksemplarer
The Book, the Bibliographer and the Absence of Mind 2 eksemplarer
Selected Writings of John Jay Chapman, The 2 eksemplarer
Berlioz: Requiem 1 eksemplar
Lincoln's philosophic vision 1 eksemplar
The Selected Letters of Lord Byron 1 eksemplar
European Writers: The Romantic Century, Volume 5, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Alexander Pushkin 1 eksemplar
Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass 1 eksemplar
European Writers: The Romantic Century, Vol. 7, Charles Baudelaire to the Well-Made Play (1985) 1 eksemplar
An Introduction to The Story of Great Music 1 eksemplar
Jaques Barzun Reader, (C7) 1 eksemplar
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Dictionary of Received Ideas (1913) — Translation, introduction, and notes, nogle udgaver; Oversætter — 518 eksemplarer
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 447 eksemplarer
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Bidragyder — 196 eksemplarer
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Bidragyder — 150 eksemplarer
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Bidragyder — 102 eksemplarer
Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to… (1883) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 84 eksemplarer
Phaedra and Figaro: Racine's Phèdre (1961) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver; Oversætter, nogle udgaver; Oversætter, nogle udgaver — 13 eksemplarer
The Later Ego 4 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Barzun, Jacques
- Juridisk navn
- Martin-Barzun, Jacques
- Fødselsdato
- 1907-11-30
- Dødsdag
- 2012-10-25
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- France (birth)
USA (naturalized 1933) - Fødested
- Créteil, France
- Dødssted
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Bopæl
- Créteil, France
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Grenoble, France - Uddannelse
- Columbia University (BA | 1927 | valedictorian | MA | 1928 | PhD | 1932)
- Erhverv
- historian
writer - Relationer
- Lowell, Mariana (wife)
Davenport, Marguerite Lee (wife) - Organisationer
- Columbia University
Philolexian Society (president)
Charles Scribner's Sons - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2003)
Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur
National Humanities Medal (2010)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Philosophical Society (1984)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1952) (vis alle 12)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1954)
Edgar Award (1972)
St. Louis Literary Award (1968)
Melville Cane Poetry Award (1993)
Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement (2011)
Académie Delphinale - Kort biografi
- Jacques Barzun was born in France in 1907. He grew up in Paris and, at twelve years old, was sent by his father to the United States to receive an American university education. In 1923 he entered Columbia College and graduated four years later at the top of his class, having been a prize-winning president of the prestigious Philolexian Society. He went on to lecture at Columbia, where he earned his Ph.D in 1932, became a full professor in 1945, and later became Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of Faculties, and Provost. In 1967 he resigned from his administrative duties to focus on teaching and writing until his retirement in 1975. Over seven decades, Barzun had written and edited more than forty books touching on an unusually broad range of subjects, including science and medicine; psychiatry from Robert Burton through William James to modern methods; art; and classical music - he was one of the all-time authorities on Hector Berlioz. After a period of poor health, he was advised that he had several years of life ahead, and this encouraged him to complete his last and largest book, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000), which became an unexpected bestseller and critically acclaimed success. Dr. Barzun was widely known in America and in Europe as a trenchant critic of modern trends in education, music and the arts, and he is also a specialist in musical history. Among his many commendations, he had been featured on the cover of Time magazine (1956); he was awarded the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which society he was elected in 1952 and twice served as its president; and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003 and he was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. Jacques Barzun died October 25, 2012, at the age of 104 in San Antonio, Texas.
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Daniel Boorstin and Jacques Barzun i Ancient History (april 2011)
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