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Romanian writer and translator
Hermiona Asachi
Born (1821-12-16 ) December 16, 1821Died December 9, 1900(1900-12-09) (aged 78)Paris, France
Nationality Romanian French Occupation(s) author, translation, writer Spouses
Alexandru Moruzi
(
div. 1849)
[1]
(
m. 1852; died 1875)
Hermiona
[a] Asachi (Romanian:
[aˈsaki] , surname also spelled Asaki ; December 16, 1821 – December 9, 1900), also known as Hermione Asachi , was a Romanian writer and translator.
Life
Hermiona was born Glicheria Melirato,
[4] the daughter of Kiriaco Melirato and
Elena Teyber .
[5] She was later adopted by
Gheorghe Asachi , her mother's second husband.
Hermiona translated texts by
Silvio Pellico and
Benjamin Franklin into Romanian for her father's publication
Albina Românească . In 1845, she moved to France, where she corresponded with various French intellectuals such as
Victor Hugo ,
Jules Michelet and
Louis Blanc .
[6]
She was first married to
Alexandru D. Moruzi [
ro ] . In 1852, she married the French historian
Edgar Quinet ,
[6]
[7] She edited some of Quinet's texts for publication,
[8] subsequently publishing under the name Hermiona Quinet .
Asachi died in Paris at the age of 78.
[6]
Works
Literary translations
René-Paul și Paul-René , translation of the short story by
Émile Deschamps (1839)
Ruth , poems by
Caroline Pichler (1839)
Istoria sfântă pentru tinerimea moldo-română (
Sacred history for young Moldavians and Romanians) (1840)
Despre îndatoririle oamenilor (On the duties of men) , by Silvio Pellico (1843)
Edgar Quinet
Works published from Edgar Quinet's notes, manuscripts, and notebooks. Many were selected, annotated, prefaced, and arranged by Hermione.
Mémoires d'exil (1869)
[9]
Paris, journal du siège (1873)
Sentiers de France (1875)
Le livre de l'exilé, 1851-1870; Après l'exil, manifestes et discours, 1871-1875 (1875)
Vie et mort du génie grec (1876)
Lettres à sa mère (1877)
Histoire de mes idées (1878)
Lettres d’exil à Michelet et à divers amis (1885-6) (4 volumes)
Edgar Quinet avant et depuis l'exil (1887-9)
[9]
Cinquante ans d'amitié, Michelet-Quinet (1899)
Other works
Le Vrai dans l'éducation (1891)
[9]
Ce que dit la musique (1893)
La France idéale (1896)
[9]
De Paris à Édimbourg (1898)
Notes
^ Also spelled Hermione
[2] and Ermiona.
[3]
References
^ Willy Aeschimann (1986).
La pensée d'Edgar Quinet [The Thinking of Edgar Quinet ] (in French). Paris: Anthropos. p. 639.
^
de:Oscar Alfred Haac [in German] (1947). "XIX". In David Baguley (ed.).
A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: The Nineteenth Century in Two Parts . Vol. 5.
Syracuse, New York :
Syracuse University Press . p. 675.
^ Wendy Bracewell; Alex Drace-Francis, eds. (2008).
A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe . Vienna:
Central European University Press . p. 505.
ISBN
9789633863893 .
^ Asachi-Quinet, Hermiona . 1967. p. 366.
^
Eugen Lovinescu (1982). Mariana Simionescu;
ro:Alexandru George [in Romanian] (eds.).
Opere . Vol. 3. London:
Minerva Press . p. 332.
^
a
b
c Țarălungă, Ecaterina.
Enciclopedia identității românești. Personalități (in Romanian). p. 38.
^ van Dijk, Suzan (1995).
George Sand lue à l'étranger: recherches nouvelles 3 (in French). p. 70.
ISBN
9051838611 .
^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (1999).
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . p. 2245.
ISBN
084932677X .
^
a
b
c
d
David Patrick ;
Francis Hindes Groome , eds. (1898).
"Quinet, Edgar" .
Chambers Biographical Dictionary .
J. B. Lippincott & Co. p. 772.
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