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t. e. William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. [1]
1 Leben. 2 Godwin der Anarchist. 3 Zitate. 4 Werke. 5 Literatur. 6 Weblinks. 7 Einzelnachweise. Leben [ Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten] William Godwin wurde 1756 in Wisbech (Nord Cambridgeshire) als siebtes von dreizehn Kindern geboren. Sein Vater war ein freikirchlicher Pfarrer. Kurz nach seiner Geburt zog die Familie nach Guestwick.
3. Apr. 2024 · William Godwin was a social philosopher, political journalist, and religious dissenter who anticipated the English Romantic literary movement with his writings advancing atheism, anarchism, and personal freedom. Godwin’s idealistic liberalism was based on the principle of the absolute sovereignty.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
16. Jan. 2000 · Godwin was born on 3 March 1756 at Wisbeach [now Wisbech], Cambridgeshire, the seventh of thirteen children of John Godwin (1723–1772) a dissenting minister, and his wife Anne (c1723–1809), the daughter of Richard Hull, a ship-owner engaged in the Baltic trade.
William Godwin was born in 1756 in Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, England, the seventh of thirteen children. His father was a Dissenting minister; his mother was the daughter of a successful shipowner. Godwin was fond of his lively mother, less so of his strictly Calvinist father.
Personal Life & Legacy He married the feminist writer, Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and wrote a candid biography of her after her sudden death. He had a daughter, Mary Shelley Godwin, who wrote ‘Frankenstein’ and married Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet.
16. Dez. 2023 · William Godwin (1756–1836) was born in a village of Cambridgeshire, son of a dissenter minister. He was educated in the Hoxton Dissenting Academy to prepare him as a minister too. In 1783, he abandons his congregation position and starts earning his life as independent writer and as journalist.
