Died 1944-12-30.
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Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
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Born 29 January 1866 · Died 30 December 1944 · Q47162
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1944· 3 entries
“Un héros, c'est celui qui fait ce qu'il peut.”
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“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”
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1937· 1 entry
Came back to live in Vézelay, which, in 1940, was occupied by the Germans
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1932· 1 entry
Rolland was among the first members of the World Committee Against War and Fascism, organized by Willi Münzenberg
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1928· 1 entry
Rolland and Hungarian scholar, philosopher and natural living experimenter Edmund Bordeaux Szekely founded the International Biogenic Society to promote and expand on their ideas of the integration of mind, body and spir
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1924· 1 entry
His book on Gandhi contributed to the Indian nonviolent leader's reputation and the two men met in 1931
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1921· 1 entry
His close friend the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig published his biography (in English Romain Rolland: The Man and His Works)
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1920· 1 entry
Rolland used the phrase, "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will" in a review, which Antonio Gramsci adopted from him as a formula for intellectual perseverance during hard times
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1915· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1915).
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"as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings"
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1913· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française for Jean-Christophe (1913).
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1905· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Femina for Jean-Christophe (1905).
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Strauss completed his opera Salome, based on the verse play by Oscar Wilde, originally written in French
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1903· 1 entry
Was appointed to the first chair of music history at the Sorbonne, he also directed briefly in 1911 the musical section at the French Institute in Florence
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1899· 1 entry
Rolland started what became a voluminous correspondence with the German composer Richard Strauss (the English translation, by Rollo Myers, runs to 239 pages, including some diary entries)
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1895· 1 entry
Received his doctoral degree with his thesis Les origines du théâtre lyrique moderne
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1889· 2 entries
And spent two years in Rome, where his encounter with Malwida von Meysenbug–who had been a friend of Nietzsche and of Wagner–and his discovery of Italian masterpieces were decisive for the development of his thought
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Career landmark: member of the École française de Rome (1889–1891).
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1886· 1 entry
First studied philosophy, but his independence of spirit led him to abandon that so as not to submit to the dominant ideology
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1866· 1 entry
Born 1866-01-29.
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