Alter | 55 Jahre (verstorben) |
Beruf | Historiker, Schriftsteller |
Geburtsdatum | Samstag, 12. Juni 1819 |
Geburtsort | Holne, Devon, England |
Todesdatum | Samstag, 23. Januar 1875 |
Todesort | Eversley |
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Beschreibung | Charles Kingsley (12. Juni 1819 - 23. Januar 1875) war ein Broad-Church-Priester der Church of England, Universitätsprofessor, Sozialreformer, Historiker, Romancier und Dichter. Er wird besonders mit dem christlichen Sozialismus, dem "Working Men's College" und der Gründung von Arbeitergenossenschaften in Verbindung gebracht, die zwar scheiterten, aber spätere Arbeitsreformen förderten. Er war ein Freund und Korrespondent von Charles Darwin. |
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
