Since 1994, freelance composer and pianist, giving lectures on his own work and the Iannis Xenakis-Stochastics connection between scientific thought and composition, and lecturing on Traditional Chinese Medicine. Since 1996, practicing as a physician. In 1998, he founded the label “klaviermusik.at” and has released numerous CDs since then. In 2000, the CD “Vienna Concert 2000” was released by Extraplatte. Since 2002, he has had his own practice for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Vienna.
2004 CD “Quiet Nights” released on Ö1 2009 CD “Bright Side” released on Ö1 2011 Book “The Healing of the Center” 2013 Practice relocated to Wiener Neustadt 2014 Book “Daily Healing” and CD “Music for Healing the Center” (Ennsthaler) 2015 Book “The Chinese Medicine Cabinet”; founding of the Austrian Society for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Wiener Neustadt, President of the OGTCM
2016 Own TCM courses in Wiener Neustadt, CD “Quiet Moments” 2017 CD “Bach-Hindemith” on klaviermusik.at; book “The Golden Way of the Center” (self-published) 2018 Practice in Bad Sauerbrunn, CDs “Blossoms of Romanticism” and “Requiem for Franziska” and book “Cookbook for Healing the Center”
2019 CD “SONATA”, book and CD “The Sound of the Center”, CD “Games of Orchestra”, String Quartet I & II, Symphony No. 1 (“DISTROFIA”), debut novel “LAUFHAUS” with audio CD “LAUFHAUS Book Music” 2020 CD “Mozart Plus”, CD “Vienna Calling”, Symphony No. 2 (“FANFARA”); books: “Chinese Medicine Against Cancer”, “World Yoga” 2021 CD “Vienna Calling”, books: “The Miracle of the Immune System”, “Cookbook for Healing the Center II”
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
1995: Lower Austrian Music Factory Prize and commission for a choral-orchestral piece 1996 and 1998: First Austrian to win the Luigi Russolo International Composition Competition in Varese, Italy.
Dannie Abse, CBE (born Daniel Abse on 22 September 1923 in Cardiff, Wales; died on 28 September 2014[1] in Golders Green, London) was a British author and poet.
Dannie Abse at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2013 | age 90
Dannie Abse grew up in his Jewish family with his brothers Leo Abse (1917–2008; lawyer, politician, author) and Wilfried Abse (1915–2005; psychoanalyst), who were about ten years older than him.[2] After successfully completing school in his hometown, he studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, the Westminster Hospital Medical School and at King’s College London. He received his doctorate in 1950. From 1954 to 1989 he worked in the breast clinic of the Central Medical Establishment in London. In 1989 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Wales.
In 1954, his autobiography, Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve, was published, in which he recounted his childhood experiences. He received the Welsh Arts Council Award and the Cholmondeley Award in 1985. Abse was a member of the British Poetry Society and had been a member of the Royal Society of Literature since 1983. Abse wrote several volumes of poetry—his first, After Every Green Thing, in 1949—as well as novels, plays, and essays. He was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 New Year Honours List.
Abse was married to art historian Joan Abse, née Mercer (1923–2005), with whom he had three children. She died in a car accident in which Dannie Abse broke a rib.
Dannie Abse was a lifelong fan of Cardiff City Football Club. He saw the first match in 1934; he references football in many of his works.
Christos Pantazis (born October 9, 1975 in Hanover)[1] is a German physician and politician (SPD). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 26, 2021. Previously, he was a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament from February 2013 to November 2021 and deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there from November 2017.
1998 Joined the SPD 2001 – 04 Elected to the Seelze local council (where he was parliamentary group leader) 2003 – 05 Spokesperson for the Jusos in the SPD district of Hanover 2003 – 04 Deputy Chairman of the Jusos Lower Saxony 2009 Member of the Executive Board of the SPD Braunschweig 2011 – 15 Deputy Chairman of the SPD Braunschweig 2011 Member of the Executive Board of the SPD parliamentary group in the city council 2012 – 13 Chairman of the SPD Bebelhof – Viewegsgarten 2013 – 21 Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament for constituency 1 | Braunschweig-Nord 2015 Chairman of the SPD Braunschweig | Member of the Executive Board of the SPD district Braunschweig 2016 – 21 Member of the Association Assembly in the Greater Braunschweig Regional Association 2017 – 21 Deputy Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in Lower Saxony State Parliament
2017 – 21 Spokesperson for the Braunschweig Group at the state level 2019 Deputy Chairman of the SPD Braunschweig District 2021 Member of the German Bundestag for the constituency | Braunschweig 2022 Deputy Health Policy Spokesperson for the SPD parliamentary group 2022 Spokesperson for the Braunschweig Group at the federal level 2023 Member of the Executive Board of the SPD Braunschweig District 2023 Deputy Chairman of the Lower Saxony/Hanover State Group in the SPD parliamentary group
Giorgos Chimonas (Kavala, March 17, 1938 – Paris, February 27, 2000) was a Greek prose writer, translator and psychiatrist who became known and distinguished in the field of Greek literature in the 1960s.
Giorgos Himonas was born in Kavala in 1938 and grew up in Thessaloniki. There he studied medicine. He continued his studies in Paris, specializing in psychiatry and neurolinguistics. After completing his studies, he returned to Greece and lived in Athens.
In 1960, he published his first book, Peisistratos. He worked in prose, translation, and essay writing. He was married to the playwright Loula Anagnostaki, and together they had a son, the writer Thanasis Heimonas. He died on February 27, 2000, in Paris at the age of 61. He was buried in the First Cemetery of Athens.
His writings explore the inner aspects of consciousness in a psychoanalytic manner and are characterized by their modern style and many elements borrowed from the anti-novel, such as a flat writing style and the absence of dialogue. Professor Linos Politis describes him as “a writer who is not easy to understand.”
There is no doubt, in my opinion, that Giorgos Himonas embodies the purest and at the same time sharpest modernist spirit of modern Greek prose. His wild imagination, his fragmentary syntax, his broken words, the incessant, dreamlike flow of his sentences, but also his paranoid, demented, or even inherently aphasic expression. These characterize his work from the first moment to the last page, not only subverting numerous narrative conventions but also establishing a permanent and profound literary experimentation on his part. [2] From whatever perspective we view his work and however we understand his language, his images, and his human forms, Heimonas is a convinced modernist who subjects things to multiple tests: from overcoming sequence, rational expression, and regulated (universally accepted and recognizable) meaning to disrupting the inductive order, but also releasing the unconscious with the consequent displacement and burial of the subject. There are certainly not many prose writers in post-war Greece who adhere so passionately to the dictates of formalism. Himonas transforms his texts into a mirror of his writing workshop, taking care to place all materials on a free-floating trajectory. Metaphorical transcendences and historical references, delusional monologues and an inner concentration laden with the speeches and phrases of others (on an ego inflamed by archaic passions and mystical fears or visions), incessant reversals and relapses of an always pretentious plot, unexpected (imaginary and apocalyptic) explosions of an apparently diffuse and perforated plot, surprising metonymies, and games of dazzling reflections through the intense interweaving of identities and heteroidentities make Heimonas’s prose resemble a lonely island in the vast sea, a literary act identified with a relentless struggle—the struggle to eliminate any regularity of meaning, to deprive its reception and acceptance of any legitimacy. And such an attitude naturally results in writing emerging as a concept without any genre label and assuming its function as a completely reduced and at the same time autonomous means of investigating the conditions of the production and creation of art in a regime of complete questioning.
Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. (February 1, 1924 – November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger’s best-known work is his novel MASH (1968), based on his experiences as a wartime United States Army surgeon during the Korean War and written in collaboration with W. C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for the award-winning, critically and commercially successful movie M*A*S*H (1970) — and two years later, the acclaimed long running television series of the same title.
After graduating from medical school, he was drafted into the Korean War and assigned to the 8055 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M.A.S.H.). According to one doctor assigned to the unit, M.A.S.H. units “weren’t on the front lines, but they were close. They lived and worked in tents. It was hot in the summer and colder than cold in the winter.”[3] The operating room consisted of stretchers balanced on carpenter’s sawhorses.[4]
Many of the M.A.S.H. doctors were in their twenties, with few having advanced surgical training.[5] During battle campaigns, units could see “as many as 1,000 casualties a day”. “What characterized the fighting in Korea”, one of Hornberger’s fellow officers recalled, “was that you would have a period of a week or ten days when nothing much was happening, then there would be a push. When you had a push, there would suddenly be a mass of casualties that would just overwhelm us.” There were, another surgeon recalled, “‘long periods when not much of anything happened’ in an atmosphere of apparent safety—plenty of time to play … When things were quiet we would sit around and read. Sometimes the nurses would have a little dance.” Hornberger’s later assessment of his unit’s behavior was: “A few flipped their lids, but most just raised hell in a variety of ways and degrees.”
A colleague described Hornberger as “a very good surgeon with a tremendous sense of humor.” Hornberger did label his tent “The Swamp” as do the characters in the novel
After the success of his book and its screen adaptations, Hornberger continued to practice as a surgeon in Waterville until his retirement in 1988. During the later years of his practice, Hornberger did medical research and published his research in peer-reviewed medical journals. He died at the age of 73 on November 4, 1997, of leukemia.
Periklis Sfyridis (born October 5, 1933, in Thessaloniki) is a contemporary Greek poet, prose writer, essayist, critic, and anthologist. His prose has been published in several languages.
Periklis Sfyridis was born in 1933 in Thessaloniki, where he lives. He graduated from the American College “Anatolia” in 1952. He studied medicine at the University of Thessaloniki (as a student of the Military Medical School) and worked as a cardiologist until 1994. From 1975 to 1981, he was president of the Thessaloniki Medical Association.
He appeared in letters in 1974 and worked closely with the literary magazine Diagonios. From 1985 to 1990, he edited Parafyada, an annual publication featuring unpublished anecdotal texts by Thessaloniki prose writers. From 1987 to 1996, he was the publishing consultant (content manager) for the magazine To Tram. In 1996, he organized the conference “Paramythia Thessaloniki” on the city’s prose from 1912 to 1995 and edited its proceedings. In 2001, he co-organized the conference “Poetry in Thessaloniki in the 20th Century” with the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies at the Faculty of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the Thessaloniki Municipal Library, and edited its proceedings. In 2005, he organized the conference “Literary Nurseries in Thessaloniki: The City’s Literary Journals in the 20th Century and Their Editorships.” In 2008, he organized the fourth conference Criticism and Critics of Thessaloniki in the 20th Century at the Municipal Library of Thessaloniki, as part of the Demetrios Festival, and edited its proceedings (together with Sotiria Stavrakopoulou).
His short story “The Secret” is the basis for Tasos Psarras’ film “The Other Side”, the screenplay for which he wrote together with the director. Two other of his short stories have been made into television films. He also wrote the texts for the documentary series “Literature and Social Reality in Thessaloniki” by Tasos Psarras, which was broadcast by ET-3 in 1997, and for the same director’s “Literary Walks in Northern Greece” (these are the television/literary portraits of the following writers: Thanasis Markopoulos / Veria, Vasilis Karagiannis / Kozani, Lazaros Pavlidis / Kilkis, Sakis Totlis / Edessa, Vasilis Tsiambousis / Drama), a series that was broadcast repeatedly on state television in 1995.
He has published two collections of poetry, fourteen short story collections, two novels, and a memoir about his spiritual journey. He has published studies on novelists, painters, and three anthologies on Thessaloniki’s prose writers, one of which has been translated into German and another into English. He has collaborated with most Greek literary magazines. His short stories have been translated into German, English, and Dutch, as have two of his books in the same language (Dutch): the short story collection First Hand and his novel Kidney Transplant. Over one hundred serious reviews and studies of his prose work have been published in individual volumes. In November 2007, he was honored by the Municipality of Thessaloniki for his prose and critical work. From 2009 to 2010, he was a member of the electoral committee of the Vafopoulio Cultural Center of Thessaloniki, responsible for speaking events. There he also created the literary series Vafopoulio Publications.
Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862 in Vienna,[1] Austrian Empire; October 21, 1931, ibid.) was an Austrian physician, narrator, and playwright. He is considered one of the most important representatives of Viennese Modernism.
From 1871 to 1879, Arthur Schnitzler attended the Akademisches Gymnasium in the 1st district and graduated with honors on July 8, 1879.[2] Afterwards, at his father’s request, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna. On May 30, 1885, he received his doctorate in medicine. His younger brother Julius (1865–1939) also became a physician.
From 1885 to 1888 he worked as an assistant and secondary physician at the General Hospital of the City of Vienna in internal medicine and in the field of psychiatry and dermatology.[3] He then worked as his father’s assistant in the laryngological department of the polyclinic in Vienna until 1893. From 1886 to 1893 Schnitzler published on medical topics and wrote more than 70 articles, mostly reviews of specialist books, including as editor of the International Clinical Review founded by his father.[4] He authored one (only) scientific book publication: On functional aphonia and its treatment through hypnosis and suggestion (1889).
Although Schnitzler had been writing literary texts since childhood and made his literary debut in 1880 (Liebeslied der Ballerine in the magazine Der freie Landbote), his public literary activity only began to intensify in 1888, when he was in his mid-20s. He published poems, one-act plays, and short stories in the magazine An der Schönen Blauen Donau, edited by Fedor Mamroth and Paul Goldmann.[5] Around this magazine, but also in the Viennese coffee houses that Schnitzler frequented, including the Café Griensteidl, like-minded people began to gather who wanted to create a new, Austrian literary movement. The term “Jung Wien” soon became established for this, even though it did not describe a unified program and only partially shared aesthetic goals. Key figures with whom Schnitzler became friends around 1890/1891 were Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hermann Bahr and Richard Beer-Hofmann.
In addition to this scandal, the publication of Reigen caused further controversy. First produced in 1900 as a private print in a small number of copies, it was freely published by Fritz Freund’s Viennese publishing house in 1903. The conversations it depicts before and after sexual intercourse between women and men from different social classes were denounced as pornography by Schnitzler’s opponents. The two themes of criticism of the army and eroticism, combined with Schnitzler’s obvious success, made him a popular target for anti-Semites.
Privately, Schnitzler documented several relationships with women in his diary for the period up to the age of 40, often conducted simultaneously without the partners’ knowledge. In particular, his largely platonic relationship with Olga Waissnix, the married landlady of the Thalhof (Reichenau an der Rax), as well as his relationships with Marie Glümer and Maria Reinhard, were considered more profound partnerships. Both Maria (often referred to in the diary as “Mizi I” and “Mizi II”), as well as others, hoped to legitimize their relationship through marriage. In Maria Reinhard’s case, this became even more pressing because she was pregnant with his child twice. The first child was stillborn, and she died of appendicitis during the second pregnancy.
His relationship with actress Olga Gussmann (1882–1970) led to a stabilization of his lifestyle. On August 9, 1902, she gave birth to their son, Heinrich Schnitzler. On August 26, 1903, the couple married. Their daughter, Lili, was born on September 13, 1909.[11] Schnitzler remained faithful for the duration of the marriage and ceased his promiscuous lifestyle.
From the beginning of the 20th century, the writer was one of the most frequently performed playwrights on German stages. With the outbreak of the First World War, interest in his works declined. This was also due to the fact that he was one of the few Austrian intellectuals who was not enthusiastic about warmongering and did not make any bellicose statements.
Reigen is Arthur Schnitzler’s most successful play for several decades. Largely unperformed during his lifetime at the author’s request, it describes in ten dialogues how a man and a woman talk to each other before and after sexual intercourse. In 1921, on the occasion of the premiere of the play Reigen, which led to a staged theater scandal in Berlin in 1920/1921 and then in Vienna, he was put on trial for causing public nuisance. The case was ultimately decided in the author’s favor by the Vienna Constitutional Court. After further performances in Vienna, however, Schnitzler asked his theater publisher in 1922 not to permit any more performances. His son only had the ban on performances lifted in 1982.
Während Schnitzler als jüdischer Autor in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus verpönt war, setzte in der NIn the postwar period, a slow institutionalization as a classic began.[38]
In 1959/1960, the Arthur Schnitzler Courtyard in Vienna-Döbling (19th district) was named after him.
In 1971, a bust of Schnitzler by Sandor Jaray was unveiled at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
On May 13, 1982, a bust of Paul Peschke was unveiled in Vienna’s Türkenschanzpark (18th district).[39] The memorial was initiated by Viktor Anninger (1911–2004), who was a friend of Lili Schnitzler and frequented Schnitzler’s house at Sternwartestraße 71. Peschke, in turn, was the son-in-law of Ferdinand Schmutzer and, when he created the memorial, lived directly across from Schnitzler’s former residence in his father-in-law’s former house.
April 2012: The small park opposite the train station in Baden (Lower Austria) is named “Arthur Schnitzler Park.”[40]
May 6, 2017: Following a municipal council resolution from September 2016, the forecourt of the Volkstheater between Burggasse, Museumstraße, and Neustiftgasse in Vienna’s 7th district, Neubau, is named “Arthur Schnitzler Square.” The theater now uses the address Arthur Schnitzler Square 1, 1070 Vienna.
The Arthur Schnitzler Prize is awarded every four years by the Arthur Schnitzler Society. This prize is endowed with 10,000 euros by the Austrian Ministry of Education and the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna.
Vasos Vogiatzoglou, son of Elias, was born in 1935 in Nea Ionia, Attica. He is a pediatrician and member of the Doctors of the World organization, a researcher of the history and folk culture of the Greeks of Asia Minor, a poet, onomasticologist, and essayist.
His parents were refugees from Sparta (Isparta) in Pisidia. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and specialized in pediatrics. She provides voluntary pediatric care for children in the women’s prisons of Korydallos and Thebes.
Vasos Ilias Vogiatzoglou was born in 1935 in Nea Ionia, Attica. He is from Sparta, Greece, Asia. He is a pediatrician and an active member of the humanitarian organization “Doctors of the World.” They provide voluntary pediatric care for children in the women’s prisons of Korydallos and Thebes. As a researcher of the history and popular culture of the Greeks of Asia Minor, a poet, onomasticologist, and essayist, he has a particular interest in the philosophical essay. He has published 37 books and collaborated with numerous newspapers and magazines in Greece and Cyprus.
Since 2006, he has been director of the Kyklos School of Philosophical and Social Science Research in his hometown. He has received numerous honors and awards for his literary and humanitarian work, including one from the Academy of Athens in 1986 for his contribution to the study of Hellenism in Asia Minor. He is a full member of the National Society of Greek Writers, the Greek Onomatological Society, the Society of Medical Writers, and the Greek Society of Christian Letters.
In addition to poetry, he studied the history and folklore of Hellenism in Asia Minor and published the studies Pisidia in Asia Minor (1978), Presences (1979), Neighborhoods of the Infidels (1981), Sparta in Asia Minor (1986), Surnames in Asia Minor: Turkish and Turkish Surnames in Greece (1992), Giannis and Giorgis (1994), Alaya in Asia Minor (1995) and Pisidian Baptismal and Surnames (1998).
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He has also published the aesthetic study The Faces of Janus (1991), the translation of the Psalms of David The Book of Psalms (1992), the travelogue about Mount Athos The Bells of Pantocrator (1992) and The Book of Job (2007); his short stories, chronicles, studies and essays have been published in magazines in Athens and Nicosia and his poems have been translated into Romanian and Polish.
Takis Sinopoulos was born in 1917 in the Peloponnese. He served as a military doctor in the Greek Civil War from 1946 to 1949; his experiences of fratricide and excessive violence had a lasting impact on him and his work. He died in 1981 in Pyrgos in the Peloponnese.
He was born in Agolinitsa, the first-born son of philologist Giorgos Sinopoulos and Roussa-Veneta Argyropoulou. He studied medicine at the University of Athens, graduating in 1944. In 1934, under the pseudonym Argyros Roubanis, he published the poem “Betrayal” and the short story “The Revenge of a Modest Man” in the Pyrgio newspaper “Nea Imara”. In 1941, he was drafted as a medical sergeant in Loutraki. [3] During the occupation, he published translations of French poets and some essays on poetry. In 1942, he was briefly imprisoned by the Italians as a resistance fighter. During the civil war, he was a doctor in an infantry battalion. After the end of the civil war, he began working as a doctor in the capital. In 1951 he published his first collection of poems, entitled Metaihmio. He was a member of the editorial staff of Eighteen Texts, New Texts 1-2, Deposition ’73, and the journal The Continuation. He also collaborated with numerous journals (Nea Estia, Filologika Chronika, Odysseas (Pyrgou), Kochlias, Piraika Grammata, Anglohelleniki Epitheoresis, Kainouria Epochi, Zygos, Epochen, Tram, O Tachydromos, etc.). He belonged to the first post-war generation. He was particularly influenced by T.S. Eliot, Seferis, and Ezra Pound. In general, his poetry is lyrical, epigrammatic, and characterized by tragic self-awareness and pessimism. In his final years, a shift in the use of linguistic material toward an anti-poetic, aggressive, and often ironic discourse was observable. He donated a large part of his library to the University of Thessaloniki.
Sinopoulos spent his student years in Pyrgos and went to Athens to study medicine in 1934. He made his first appearance in the literary world in 1934 with the publication of the poem “Betrayal” and the short story “The Revenge of a Modest Man” in the Pyrgos newspaper “Nea Imera” under the pseudonym Argyros Roubanis. His first book of poetry, titled “Metaihmio,” was published in 1951. The first poem in this volume, “Elpinor,” was written in 1944.
A pioneering figure of the “Generation of the 1950s,” Sinopoulos authored a number of poetry collections, essays, and book reviews throughout his creative career, which shaped the country’s intellectual life in the post-war years. He is a tragedian par excellence. The emphasis on the tragic “stigmatizes” his entire poetry, the drama, the decay, the death, the suffering and the alienation, and embodies the tragic historical events he experienced (the dictatorship of Metaxas, the war occupation, the civil war, the 1967 dictatorship, the coup and the invasion of Cyprus).
He also wrote the poetry collections “The Song of Joanna and Constantine,” which won the 1961 State Prize for Poetry, “Acquaintance with Max,” and “Night and Counterpoint,” as well as various studies and essays on the work of Seferis, such as “Strofi.” He was awarded the 2nd State Poetry Prize in 1962 for “The Song of Joanna and Constantine.”
He died on April 25, 1981 (Easter Eve 1981) in Pyrgos. He was married to Maria Dotta, who in 1995 donated the house she lived in in the municipality of Nea Ionia to the Takis Sinopoulos Foundation as accommodation. A bust of the poet stands in the square in front of his house on Takis Sinopoulos Street in Perissos.
François Rabelais [fʁɑ̃.swa ʁa.blɛ] (c. 1494, perhaps 1483, in La Devinière near Chinon, Touraine; † April 9, 1553, in Paris) was a French Renaissance writer, humanist, Roman Catholic friar and secular priest, practicing physician, and lecturer. He is one of the most important prose writers in French literature; of his works, the novel cycle Gargantua and Pantagruel is most well-known.
Rabelais-Museum
Rabelais began his novitiate as a religious priest in the Franciscan monastery of La Baumette, Couvent des Cordeliers de la Baumette, near Angers. He received his sacraments of ordination around 1511. In 1520, he is documented as a religious priest in the Couvent des Puy-Saint-Martin in Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée department).[5] Here, through an older confrere, he came into contact with the humanism radiating from Italy and began to learn ancient Greek.
From 1528 onwards, he was in Paris, presumably after stops at the universities of Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Orléans. He appears to have assumed the status of diocesan priest, which gave him greater freedom to continue his medical studies and cultivate scholarly contacts. His marriage to a widow produced two illegitimate children, François and Junine. This did not keep him in Paris; rather, in September 1530, he enrolled at the famous medical school in Montpellier, where Rabelais earned a baccalaureate degree on November 1.
In the summer of 1532, Rabelais lived in Lyon, where he practiced medicine and published various scholarly works with the printer and publisher Sebastian Gryphius. He also wrote a novel, which was also published in Lyon at the end of 1532: The Horrible and Poisonous Things Made and Proud of the Very Renowned Pantagruel, King of Dipsodes, Son of the Great Gargantua. Composed Newly by Master Alcofrybas Nasier. The title alone made the work recognizable as a parody, especially of the chivalric romance genre.
The Very Excellent and Entertaining History of François Rabelais – Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGbh2q1lohE
When the Quart livre was published in its entirety in early 1552, now in Paris, the attitude of the rulers changed. The king and the pope had come to an agreement; criticism of the latter was no longer welcome. Accordingly, the Sorbonne did not hesitate to condemn the book. Subsequently, the Paris Parliament also banned the work. It did not help that Cardinal Odet de Châtillon had previously accepted Rabelais’s dedication. The ban did not diminish the book’s success. However, at the beginning of 1553, Rabelais himself had to give up a benefice in Meudon near Paris and another in the diocese of Le Mans, which he had received through Jean du Bellay. Nothing more is known of him after this. However, he was apparently still working on a further volume until shortly before his death in April 1553. This volume was completed by an unknown hand, presumably at the instigation of his printer. It was published in 1563 under the title “Le cinquième livre” and was included in the complete editions of the cycle, which began publication shortly after the author’s death and continued to appear with great regularity.
The very excellent and entertaining story of François Rabelais – Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-7nRjqe-dQ
The François Rabelais University of Tours[14] (French: Université François Rabelais de Tours or simply Université de Tours) is a public university in the French city of Tours and was named after François Rabelais after its founding on March 27, 1969. A plant genus, Rabelaisia Planch, in the rue family (Rutaceae), is also named after Rabelais.
