Gabriel Marcel Collection 1898-1973

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

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Rilke wrote to Werfel in 1913 after reading Werfel's first 2 books of poems, Der Weltfreund and Wir sind. They met for the first time in the same year. Ruth Siebe-Rilke was the daughter of Rilke and Clara Westhoff; here she signs her name Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke. She was at that time the administrator of the Rilke family archive, located in Fischerhude, near Bremen, Germany. (More recently the archive has been located in Gernsbach.) From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werf...

Boegner, Genevieve

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Richardson, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller), 1873-1957

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Author and translator Richardson was born and raised in England. She was a teacher and a dentist's assistant; after her marriage to artist Alan Odle, she concentrated on writing. From the description of Papers, 1944-1979 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007877 Dorothy M. Richardson, English novelist. From the description of Dorothy Richardson collection, 1889-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86121603 From the description of D...

Delhomme, Jeanne

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Yarish, Darwin

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Picard, Max, 1888-1965

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Marcel, Gabriel, 1889-1973

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French philosopher, dramatist, and critic. From the description of Collection, 1898-1973 (bulk 1908-1964). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530511 Gabriel Marcel, generally regarded as the first French existential philosopher, was born in Paris in 1889 and died there in 1973. An only child in an upper-middle class family, Marcel early excelled in his studies and demonstrated an aptitude for ph...

Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941

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Bergson was a leading French philosopher of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. From the description of [Calling card] / Henri Bergson. [late 19th cent. or early 20th cent.] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 166268388 1881-1883 professor of Philosophy, Lycée d’Angers; 1883-1888 Lycée de Clermont-Ferrand; 1888-1889 professor, Collège Rollin; 1889-1897 Lycée Henri IV; 1897-1900 professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure; 1900-1921 professor, the College of France;...

Lehmann, Rosamond, 1901-1990

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Rosamond Lehmann was an author, editor, and translator, probably most widely known as a novelist. Born in England to a well-to-do Edwardian family, she attended Cambridge and found success with her first novel, the semiautobiographical Dusty Answer. Her work had a particularly feminine quality, featuring lyrical prose and psychological insight, but slightly repetitive plots; she was often compared with Virginia Woolf as a stylist with a strongly feminine perspective. She also served as vice-pres...

Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916

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Josiah Royce was born in Grass Valley, California, on November 20, 1855. He received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1885 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1878. Royce taught English and philosophy at both Berkeley and Harvard, and was also active in the study of the American West. He spent a significant amount of time from 1883 to 1891 writing both histories and novels relating to California history. Royce Hall at UCLA and the Grass Valley Library...

Bradley, F. H. (Francis Herbert), 1846-1924

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Ebner, Ferdinand, 1882-1931

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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980

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Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905-1980), existentialist philosopher, dramatist and novelist, author of La Nausée (1938), Huis clos (1943), and L'être et le néant (1943). From the description of Jean-Paul Sartre collection, [ca. 1950-1970]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702138367 The life of Jean-Paul Sartre, French novelist and Existentialist philosopher, has been recounted in numerous books. Of particular relevance to this collection is John Gerassi's own biographical study, Jean...