Samuel Pips , less often - Pepis ( English Samuel Pepys , February 23, 1633 , London - May 26, 1703 , Clapham, south of London) - an English naval official, the author of the famous diary about the daily life of Londoners during the Stuart Restoration .
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Career
The son of a London tailor, he graduated from the capital school of St. Paul, and then the Magdalen College in Cambridge . In 1655, he married the fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Saint-Michel, the daughter of the impoverished French Huguenot refugee (she died in 1669 ). The family began life in poverty. Pips entered the service of the house of his distant relative, an influential military man and politician, Sir Edward Montague (later 1st Earl of Sandwich), who owed much to his subsequent career. In 1660 , at the very beginning of the reign of Charles II, Pips was appointed clerk and clerk of the Royal Navy , from 1665 he was the chief inspector of the Navy Supply Committee, and from 1672 he was secretary of the Admiralty . Since 1665 - a member of the Royal Scientific Society (in 1684 - 1686 - his president).
Pips was first elected to the British Parliament in 1673, re-elected in 1679 , but on charges of complicity in the conspiracy, or rather, on the slander of enemies and envious, dismissed and imprisoned for several months in the Tower of London . In 1683 he was sent on a mission to Tangier , since 1684 - the king’s secretary for naval affairs, actively contributed to the creation of a modern fleet under Charles, and from 1685 under Jacob II Stuart. In 1685-1689 he was again a member of the British Parliament . In 1689 , after King Jacob was removed from power and fled from the country and William Oransky ascended the throne, Pips lost the parliamentary elections and was forced to resign. On suspicion of Jacobite sympathies, he was briefly detained in 1689 and 1690 . He moved away from public life, and in 1700 left London, retiring to his estate, where he died a few years later.
Friendship and the General Ledger
Samuel Pips was friends with Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle , John Dryden and Christopher Wren . He played music, was engaged in painting, composed poems. However, his main book was The Diary, which he kept in 1660–1669, and in which, with his inherent conscientiousness, he recreated as general catastrophes (the Great Plague of London 1665 and the famous Great Fire of London 1666 ), battles between nations ( Second Anglo-Dutch War 1665 - 1667 ), political conflicts and court squabbles, as well as details of one's own life, table, love affairs and other things. Pips stopped taking notes due to vision problems, and didn’t want to dictate them to an outsider. His diary was written according to the shorthand system of Thomas Shelton , which made it difficult for outsiders to read, and was kept intact in the library of Magdalen College until the beginning of the 19th century, when it was decrypted by textologist John Smith. First published in 1825 .
Recognition
The "Diary" was repeatedly reprinted both in full and in abbreviated form ("Big" and "Small Pips"), translated into many languages. It became an indispensable historical source and entertaining reading material at leisure, which its author himself loved, who was, among other things, a major bibliophile (his library also went to Magdalen College). The fascination of the Pips diary was highly praised by Robert Lewis Stevenson .
Pips's personal life, his relationship with his wife and adventures on the side, which are also reflected in living details in the Diary, began in the 20th century material for several novels written both from the point of view of the head of the family and from the standpoint of his young wife. In 2003, a British television series, Samuel Pipps' Private Life, was shown on British television, in the title role - Englishman Steve Cougan , in the role of his wife - French actress Lou Doyon .
In 1923, a street in the City of London was named after Pips.
There is the Problem, a probability theory problem that Samuel Pips and Isaac Newton discussed [6] .
Latest editions
- The diary of Samuel Pepys. 11 vols. / Robert Latham, William Matthews, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970-1983
- The illustrated Pepys: extracts from the diary / Robert Latham, ed. London: Bell & Hyman, 1978
Publications in Russian
- Home, have dinner and go to bed. From the diary / Entry. Art., comp. and translation by A. Livergant . M .: Text , 2001; 2010.
- From the diaries. // Fatherland of caricatures and parodies. M .: UFO, 2009 .-- S. 8-144.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 RKDartists
- ↑ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pepys,_Samuel_(DNB00)
- ↑ http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=LAM057a
- ↑ Evgeny Epifanov. Dice game . elementy.ru. Date of treatment January 23, 2016.
Literature
- Bryant, Arthur. Samuel Pepys (I: The man in the making. II: The years of peril. III: The savior of the navy). - Revised 1948. Reprinted 1934, 1961, etc. - Cambridge: University Press, 1933. - ISBN LCC + B8 & Search_Code = CALL_ & CNT = 5 DA447.P4 B8 .
- Ollard, Richard. Pepys: a biography. - First published 1974. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. - ISBN 0-19-281466-4 .
- Tomalin, Claire. Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self. - London: Viking, 2002. - ISBN 0-670-88568-1 .
- Trease, Geoffrey. Samuel Pepys and his world. - Norwich, Great Britain: Jorrold and Son, 1972.
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys MAFRS . - London: George Bell & Sons, 1893.
- Pepys, Samuel (1995) Robert Latham ed. Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War. Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers Aldershot: Scholar Press for the Navy Records Society [Publications, Vol 133] ISBN 1-85928-136-2
- Pepys, Samuel. Pepys's later diaries / CS Knighton. - Stroud: Sutton, 2004 .-- ISBN 0-7509-3656-8 .
- Pepys, Samuel. Particular friends: the correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn / Guy de la Bedoyere. - 2nd. - Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2005 .-- ISBN 1-84383-134-1 .
- Pepys, Samuel. The letters of Samuel Pepys, 1656–1703 / Guy de la Bedoyere. - Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006 .-- ISBN 1-84383-197-X .
- Seal, Jeremy The Wreck Detectives: Stirling Castle . Channel 4 (2003). Date of treatment June 6, 2006.
Links
- Duncan Gray's pages on Pepys
- Samuel Pepys works in the Gutenberg project
- Pepys library online at Magdalene College, Cambridge