Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Androidâ„¢ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Index Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel (27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic. [1]

20 relations: Berlin, Edict of Nantes, English language, Erasmus, Ethics, Europe, Geneva, Germaine de Staël, German philosophy, HathiTrust, Huguenots, Mark Pattison (academic), Mary Augusta Ward, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Restoration and Regeneration in Switzerland, Switzerland, Van Wyck Brooks, Walter Pater, William Francis Barry.

Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Berlin · See more »

Edict of Nantes

The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes), signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in the nation, which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Edict of Nantes · See more »

English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and English language · See more »

Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (28 October 1466Gleason, John B. "The Birth Dates of John Colet and Erasmus of Rotterdam: Fresh Documentary Evidence," Renaissance Quarterly, The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1979), pp. 73–76; – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam,Erasmus was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Erasmus · See more »

Ethics

Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Ethics · See more »

Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Europe · See more »

Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Geneva · See more »

Germaine de Staël

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (née Necker; 22 April 176614 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Germaine de Staël · See more »

German philosophy

German philosophy, here taken to mean either (1) philosophy in the German language or (2) philosophy by Germans, has been extremely diverse, and central to both the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy for centuries, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz through Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein to contemporary philosophers.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and German philosophy · See more »

HathiTrust

HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and HathiTrust · See more »

Huguenots

Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Huguenots · See more »

Mark Pattison (academic)

Mark Pattison (10 October 1813 – 30 July 1884) was an English author and a Church of England priest.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Mark Pattison (academic) · See more »

Mary Augusta Ward

Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold; 11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Mary Augusta Ward · See more »

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Matthew Arnold · See more »

Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Poetry · See more »

Restoration and Regeneration in Switzerland

The periods of Restoration and Regeneration in Swiss history last from 1814 to 1847.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Restoration and Regeneration in Switzerland · See more »

Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Switzerland · See more »

Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks (February 16, 1886 in Plainfield, New Jersey – May 2, 1963 in Bridgewater, Connecticut) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Van Wyck Brooks · See more »

Walter Pater

Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and Walter Pater · See more »

William Francis Barry

Rev.

New!!: Henri-Frédéric Amiel and William Francis Barry · See more »

Redirects here:

Amiel (aesthetics), Henri Amiel, Henri Frederic Amiel, Henri Frédéric Amiel, Henri-Frederic Amiel.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Frédéric_Amiel

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »