fiction.wikisort.org - Writer

Search / Calendar

Richard Rowlands, born Richard Verstegan (c. 1550 1640), was an Anglo-Dutch antiquary, publisher, humorist and translator. Verstegan was born in East London the son of a cooper; his grandfather, Theodore Roland Verstegen, was a refugee from Guelders who arrived in England around the year 1500.[1] A convert to the Catholic Church, Rowlands produced an English translation of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary; the translation and primer prayer book that contained it remained among the most popular English Catholic devotionals for two centuries.[2]


Biography


Under the patronym Rowlaunde, Richard went to Christ Church, Oxford,[1] in 1564, where he may have studied early English history and the Anglo-Saxon language. Having become a Catholic, he left the university without a degree[1] to avoid swearing the Oath of Supremacy. Thereafter he was indentured to a goldsmith, and in 1574 became a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. In 1576 he published a guidebook to Western Europe, translated from German, entitled The Post of the World.[1]

At the end of 1581 he secretly printed an account of the execution of Edmund Campion but was discovered and 'being apprehended, brake out of England'.[citation needed] In exile he resumed the surname of Verstegen (Anglicized Verstegan). While in Paris he was briefly imprisoned at the insistence of the English Ambassador;[1] in Rome, he was the recipient of a temporary pension from the pope. In both of these cities he published accounts of the suffering of priests in England.

In 1585 or 1586 he moved to Antwerp, and set up in business as a publisher and engraver,[1] an intelligencer, and a smuggler of books and people. From 1617 to about 1630 Verstegan was a prolific writer in Dutch, producing epigrams, characters, jestbooks, polemics. He also penned journalistic commentaries, satires and editorials for the Nieuwe Tijdinghen (New Tidings) printed in Antwerp by Abraham Verhoeven from 1620 to 1629.[3] This makes him one of the earliest identifiable newspaper journalists in Europe. He spent the rest of his long life in Antwerp, dying there in 1640.


Works


Plate from Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis (1587), depicting reported Protestant atrocities.
Plate from Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis (1587), depicting reported Protestant atrocities.

The verses on the defeat of the Irish rebels under Tír Eoghain, entitled England's Joy, by R. R. (1601), have mistakenly been attributed to him.


References


  1. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rowlands, Richard" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 787.
  2. Cross, F.L.; Livingstone, E.A., eds. (1997). "Primer". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.). London: Oxford University Press. p. 1327. ISBN 0-19-211655-X.
  3. Paul Arblaster, From Ghent to Aix: How They Brought the News in the Habsburg Netherlands (Leiden and Boston, 2014), pp. 92-93. Partial view on Google Books.



На других языках


- [en] Richard Rowlands

[fr] Richard Verstegen

Richard Rowlands, Richard Verstegan, Richardus Versteganus ou Richard Verstegen, né vers 1550 à Londres et mort en 1640 à Anvers (Belgique), est un agitateur politique, un historien et archéologue, un polémiste des plus virulents, un poète, un traducteur, un graveur et peintre, un orfèvre, un marchand de drap et un imprimeur. Comme auteur, il écrivait en langues latine, anglaise et néerlandaise[1],[2].



Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии