Nureddin Djami

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Nikolaus Berwanger

Nikolaus Berwanger (*5.7.1935, Freidorf/Banat/Rumänien; +1.4.1989 Ludwigsburg/Baden-Württemberg/Deutschland) hat wie kein anderer das Kulturleben der Banater Schwaben in der Nachkriegszeit geprägt und sich dabei nicht nur Freunde gemacht. Er kam in Freidorf, der gleichen, heute zu Temeswar gehörenden Ortschaft, zur Welt, in der auch Johnny Weissmüller, Schwimmweltrekordler und Tarzan-Interpret, geboren wurde. Die politische Gesinnung in seiner Arbeiterfamilie hat ihn schon als Kind geprägt. Nach dem Besuch der Volksschule machte er auf Baustellen und in einer Ziegelei erste Erfahrungen mit dem Leben und der sozialistischen Weltanschauung des Proletariats. Die Folge war, dass Nikolaus Berwanger mit 15 Jahren das jüngste Mitglied des „Deutschen Antifaschistischen Komitees“ wurde. Er absolvierte eine Textilfachschule und arbeitete in einem der zahlreichen Temeswarer Betriebe dieser Leichtindustriebranche. Schon 1952 ging er nach Bukarest und wurde Mitarbeiter des Tagesblattes „Neuer...

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Robert Louis Stevenson

13 noiembrie 1850 - 3 decembrie 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson was born to Thomas and Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850. From the beginning he was sickly. Through much of his childhood he was attended by his faithful nurse, Alison Cunningham, known as Cummy in the family circle. She told him morbid stories about the Covenanters (the Scots Presbyterian martyrs), read aloud to him Victorian penny-serial novels, Bible stories, and the Psalms, and drilled the catechism into him, all with his parents' approval. Thomas Stevenson was quite a storyteller himself, and his wife doted on their only child, sitting in admiration while her precocious son expounded on religious dogma. Stevenson inevitably reacted to the morbidity of his religious education and to the stiffness of his family's middle-class values, but that rebellion would come only after he entered Edinburgh University.

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Paul Strassburg

Secret Counsellor of the King of Sweden, Gustav the 2nd Adolf Paul Strassburg (1595 – 1654) was born at Nurnberg in 1595, two years after his father, a jurist, settled in the town arriving from Saxony. He acquired an academic degree at Altdorf. For three years he studied Italian and Latin in Italy. While in Prague he joined the protestant uprising in Bohemia, since he was a Calvinist, and he fought at The Battle of White Mountain (1) thus becoming a captain. In 1624 he makes a first trip to Transylvania as diplomatic agent / secret agent trying to persuade the prince of Transylvania Gabriel Bethlen (2) to become a member of the Hague Alliance of the Protestant countries: England, Holland, Denmark and thus to fight against the Habsburg Empire. The prince asked for too much money and nothing was settled. Four years later Paul Strassburg is commissioned with a new mission to Transylvania, on behalf of King Gustav Adolf of Sweden, who was now brother-in-law with the prince of...

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Ion Creanga

ION CREANGA (1839-1889) -viata si activitatea literara- Ion Creanga s-a nascut la 10 iunie 1839 in satul Humulesti. Intre 1846-1855 urmeaza scoala din Humulesti, dupa care invata la Brosteni, apoi la Tirgu-Neamt si la scoala de catiheti din Falticeni. Intre 1855-1858 urmeaza seminarul de la Socola –cursul inferior, dupa care se inscrie la Facultatea de Teologie a Universitatii din Iasi, dar nu o frecventeaza. In 1875 il cunoaste pe Mihaai Eminescu. Devin buni prieteni. Eminescu il introduce la societatea literara “Junimea” si-l ajuta sa debuteze in “Convorbiri literare” (Soacra cu trei nuroi, 1 octombrie 1875), unde va publica pina in 1878 si celelalte povesti. In 1881-1882 publica primele trei parti din “Amintiri din copilarie”, a patra fiind postuma. In aceeasi perioada cu Eminescu, Creanga este grav bolnav si se stinge din viata la 31 decembrie 1889. Opera lui Creanga este epopeea poporului roman. Creanga este Homer al nostru. (G. Ibraileanu) Ion...

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Emily Dickinson

Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts, the second daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Emily, Austin (her older brother) and her younger sister Lavinia were nurtured in a quiet, reserved family headed by their authoritative father Edward. Throughout Emily’s life, her mother was not "emotionally accessible," the absence of which might have caused some of Emily’s eccentricity. Being rooted in the puritanical Massachusetts of the 1800’s, the Dickinson children were raised in the Christian tradition, and they were expected to take up their father’s religious beliefs and values without argument. Later in life, Emily would come to challenge these conventional religious viewpoints of her father and the church, and the challenges she met with would later contribute to the strength of her poetry. The Dickinson family was prominent in Amherst. In fact, Emily’s grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, was one of the founders...

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