| 词条 | Albert Dresden Vandam |
| 释义 |
Albert Dresden Vandam (1843–1903) was an English journalist and writer. LifeBorn in London in March 1843, the son of Mark Vandam, his background was Dutch-Jewish descent. Before he was 13 he was sent to Paris, where he was privately educated, and stayed 15 years. According to his own account, his youth was passed among prominent French people and that he, at the same time, made the acquaintance of the theatrical and Bohemian worlds of the French capital.[1] Vandam began a career as a journalist during the Prusso-Austrian war of 1866, writing for English papers, and he was correspondent for American papers during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. Settling in London in 1871, he engaged in translation from the French and Dutch and other literary work, occasionally going abroad on special missions for newspapers. From 1882 to 1887 Vandam was again in Paris as correspondent for the Globe, subsequently making his home anew in London.[1] Vandam died in London on 25 October 1903.[1] WorksVandam's An Englishman in Paris, published anonymously in 1892 (2 vols.), collected gossip of the courts of Louis Philippe and the Second Empire. He wrote further works on French life and history, sometimes slighting:[1]
Vandam translated for the first time into English, under the title of Social Germany in Luther's Time, the autobiography of the sixteenth-century Pomeranian notary Bartholomäus Sastrow, which he published in 1902 (with introduction by H. A. L. Fisher). Other works included:[1]
FamilyVandam married Maria, daughter of Lewin Moseley, a London dentist.[1] Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite DNB12|wstitle=Vandam, Albert Dresden|volume=3}} Attribution{{DNB12|wstitle=Vandam, Albert Dresden|volume=3}}External links
5 : 1843 births|1903 deaths|English male journalists|English writers|English people of Dutch descent |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。