Alexander William Kingleck ( born Alexander William Kinglake ; 1809-1891) is an English deputy, military historian, writer, and traveler.
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| Occupation | writer , prose writer , historian , traveler |
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| Debut | Eothen (London, 1844) |
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Biography
Alexander William Kingleck was born on August 5, 1809 in Taunton [4] . He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College , University of Cambridge . In his student years he met Alfred Tennyson and William Makepeace Thackeray and later this acquaintance grew into a friendship [5] [6] .
His first work: “ Eothen ” (London, 1844 and more often) - a description of a trip to the East - attracted attention with its originality and brilliant style. A passion for adventure forced Kingleck to join the expedition of the French general Saint-Arno in Algeria, and in 1854 to take part in the Crimean campaign [7] .
In 1857, Kingleck was elected to the House of Commons of Great Britain , where he joined the Whig Party, but at the same time he energetically opposed Palmerston ’s foreign policy, which was striving for a close alliance with France. In 1868, Alexander William Kingleck lost his parliamentary powers and has since devoted himself entirely to completing his monumental work on the history of the Crimean campaign (Invasion of the Crimea, London 1863-1887), which he also used to compose personal messages from General Totleben .
In France, Kingleck's work attracted great attention and was banned by censorship of the Second Empire . He sees the main reason for the Crimean War in the abnormal situation of France created by the coup on December 2, 1851: the French leader Napoleon III needed a sparkle of external victories, which, having chained the army, would strengthen his shaky throne. All the failures of the allies A.W. Kingleck blames the French; he is very welcoming to Russians [7] [8] .
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In Russian, an excerpt from Kingleck’s work is given in the book “ Paris and the Province on December 2, 1851. Historical Etudes by E. Teno. The story of the December 2 coup of A. Kinglek ”( St. Petersburg , 1869) [7] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Kingleck Alexander William // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature / Kinglake, Alexander William.
- ↑ Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.
- ↑ Kinglake, Alexander William (DNB00)
- ↑ 1 2 3 Kingleck, Alexander-William // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Soviet historical encyclopedia. M. Soviet Encyclopedia. Ed. E. M. Zhukova. 1973-1982.
Links
- Kinglake, Alexander William (DNB00) .