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Vor 5 Tagen · Herman Melville ( born Melvill; [a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
Vor 5 Tagen · Herman Melville (born August 1, 1819, New York City—died September 28, 1891, New York City) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet, best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick (1851).
- Herman Melville’s family was descended from Scottish and Dutch settlers of New York and had taken leading roles in the American Revolution and in t...
- Herman Melville was briefly famous in his lifetime as the writer of adventure novels such as Typee and Omoo. Beginning in the early 20th century, M...
- As a young man, Herman Melville worked as a schoolteacher. He then worked on the sea, first as a cabin boy and later as a harpooner on a whaling sh...
Vor 3 Tagen · Herman Melville, who had met Emerson in 1849, originally thought he had "a defect in the region of the heart" and a "self-conceit so intensely intellectual that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name", though he later admitted Emerson was "a great man".
Vor 2 Tagen · The name was also a reference to the ancestry Hall says he was told by his family, though he is not directly related to Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick. Moby is distantly related to David Melville , inventor of the first United States-patented gas light system.
Vor einem Tag · Herman Melville (1819–1891), Schriftsteller, Dichter und Essayist; Susan Warner (1819–1885), Schriftstellerin; Alexander Cartwright (1820–1892), Feuerwehrmann und Baseballpionier; Mary Hemenway (Mary Porter Tileston Hemenway; 1820–1894), Philanthropin und Mäzenin; Schuyler Colfax (1823–1885), Politiker und 17.
Vor einem Tag · Adolf Hitler im ersten Lebensjahr um 1890. Hitlers Familie stammte aus dem niederösterreichischen Waldviertel an der Grenze zu Böhmen.Seine Eltern waren der Zollbeamte Alois Hitler (1837–1903) und dessen dritte Frau Klara Pölzl (1860–1907).
Vor 3 Tagen · Melville’s strangest work is likely The Confidence Man: His Masquerade (1857); it is absolutely bizarre and in theory, makes no sense unless read with the hindsight of the late Safe and Effective Scamdemic hoodwinking the world. In other words, The Confidence Man perhaps, prophetic as a study in how one may abdicate judgment and ignore that ...
