Andrei Ionut Cucu, Catalin M. Buzduga, Navena Widulin
et al.
<b>Background:</b> In the 19th century, pulmonary tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in Europe, responsible for up to one-quarter of all mortality. Before Robert Koch’s discovery of the tubercle bacillus in 1882 and the advent of effective therapies, treatment relied on rest, high-caloric diets, and sanatoria. <b>Objectives:</b> This study aims to reconstruct the medical biography of Dr. Șerban Eminovici (1841–1874), Romanian physician and elder brother of poet Mihai Eminescu, and to contextualize his life and death within the broader history of tuberculosis and pre-antibiotic medical practice. <b>Methods:</b> We conducted a historical case study using archival sources, including university registers from Erlangen, Munich, and Vienna, hospital admission records from the Charité Hospital in Berlin, and contemporaneous correspondence. Secondary literature on the history of tuberculosis and the Eminovici family was also reviewed. <b>Results</b>: Eminovici pursued medical studies across Central Europe, obtaining his doctorate in Vienna and later practicing medicine in Berlin, where he was a member of the Berliner Medizinische Gesellschaft. Despite early signs of respiratory illness, treated at spa resorts such as Gleichenberg, his condition progressed to advanced pulmonary tuberculosis with neuropsychiatric complications. Hospital records confirm his admission to the Charité on 10 October 1874, and his death from “Lungenschwindsucht” (pulmonary tuberculosis) on 29 November 1874, at age 33. His trajectory illustrates both the transnational mobility of Romanian intellectual elites and the therapeutic limitations of pre-antibiotic medicine. <b>Conclusions:</b> The case of Dr. Șerban Eminovici highlights the devastating impact of tuberculosis on 19th-century intellectuals, the reliance on lifestyle-based therapies before the discovery of the tubercle bacillus, and the importance of Central European medical networks in shaping Romanian professional identities. Beyond its biographical significance, this case underscores the persistent social and cultural burden of tuberculosis in Eastern Europe.
In this paper, I provide a close examination of early Christian biographical sources through the heuristic lens of “home studies”, tracing a thread from the New Testament Gospels to martyrdom texts, the apocryphal Acts literature, Eusebius’ biography of Origen in his <i>Church History</i>, and finally, Athanasius’ <i>Life of Antony</i>. I demonstrate that the lens of home allows us to see that in each of these discrete groups of texts, Christ’s call to discipleship is understood to redefine and reconstitute the meaning of home and relatedly, family: to be “home” required a great deal of displacement and mobility as one forsook one’s biological family and household for the sake of obedience to the call of Christ. I argue that three topics, typically examined separately, are fruitfully brought together through the lens of home: (1) the shaping of ancient Christian identity formation, as expressed by the characters’ use of familial language to identify other members of the early Christian movement; (2) the mobile nature of the person who joins the movement, providing insights about the mobility and travel of many of its members; and (3) ancient Christian eschatological thought concerning the final dwelling of Christ-believers in some form of otherworldly home after death.
Background. The study systematized methodological foundations of socio-psychological research of generations. Crucial issues are the pluralistic definition of the concept of “generation” in psychological science, the lack of methodological argumentation for the small samples in the qualitative research applied in the area, and the need to correlate different methodological positions in the process of cognition.
Objective. To identify operationalization of the concept of “generation” in the classical, non-classical, and post-non-classical type of scientific rationality in order to define the methodological perspective (subject, methods) of the socio-psychological research.
Methods. Deductive, analytical-synthetic.
Results. To be applicable for the socio-psychological research, a “generation” can be defined as an object of non-classical science — a large group of peers socializing in the same historical context and acquiring similar psychological characteristics, and also as an object of post-non-classical science — an eventful biography-narrative or symbolic system (symbols, discourse) formed in the contemporaries’ communicative field in a given period of time. The post-non-classical understanding of generation provides the arguments for obtaining valid results by qualitative methods (with in-depth data and non-mass, sufficient samples of relevant cases), which are aimed at restoring the meanings and senses reflected in the generation language and universal for its representatives. The definition of generation as a cohort, age stratum of society, or genetic generation in classical theories carries the risk of replacing the object with a non-socio-psychological one, shifting it to other areas of science (developmental psychology, psychogenetics, demography).
Conclusions. The study identified the features of classical, non-classical, and post-non-classical theories of generations — operationalization of “generation”, patterns of generational change (linear, cyclical, chaotic), possible subject and methods of research. Intergroup research plans yield valid results with non-classical and post-non-classical interpretations of generation.
In this article, we reported a rare case of nine syndrome, which is characterized by clinical signs of the one-and-a-half syndrome, ipsilateral facial palsy, contralateral hemiparesis, hemihypesthesia, or ataxia. A 44-year-old male presented with sudden onset of double vision for 3 days. Examination revealed left horizontal gaze palsy, internuclear ophthalmoplegia, left lower motor neuron facial nerve palsy with right hemiplegia, and hemihypesthesia. Magnetic resonance imaging brain showed evidence of acute infarction at the left paramedian pons. Magnetic resonance angiography revealed a beaded small-caliber basilar artery suggestive of intracranial vasculopathy in the posterior circulation. The patient has been treated with an antiplatelet and lipid-lowering agent. His right hemiparesis has improved, but the ocular motility and left facial paresis persisted. The literature reviews of 14 cases of nine syndrome were discussed, and the biography background, clinical pictures, etiology, neuroimaging, treatment, and recovery status were described.
This paper approaches the relations between history and fiction through analysis of two works: the Franz Werfel drama’s Juarez und Maximilian (1924), and the Miguel Contreras Torres movie’s, Juárez y Maximiliano (1934). Both works intend to tell us the happened during the Second Mexican Empire, Werfel with the Austrian gaze and Contreras with the Mexican gaze. We go inside to biography and context of authors, as well as the reception of the drama and movie in the local press, to understanding the political implications of the representations of the past. Finally, we analyze the philosophy of history implied in both Werfel and Contreras, and your relations with creation’s context.
Obituaries are micro-narratives in which distinct conventions and tensions are at work. Humanist and historical, emotional and dispassionate, philosophical and random, obituaries have a literary nexus that encompasses reverence, irreverence, grief and (in some cases) relief. My analysis starts with broadsheet obituaries of the late twentieth century, and models of reading the genre, which I re-read through counter-establishment Private Eye’s comic verse obituaries. Pet memorials adopt and adapt obituary, creating distinct subcultures of animal relations in genres of human mourning. The obituaries discussed span the ideological reproduction of essentially respectful obituaries, to comedy’s counter-cultural critique, to an expansive embrace of selected animal companions seen as part of human families, to an articulation of the value of life forms lost to climate emergency. In these and other contexts, obituaries are alive and well.
The article deals with the history of literary relations of R.P. Kumov and M. Gorky. The correspondence of writers is analyzed, which reveals the role of M. Gorky in the creative biography of R.P. Kumov. Typological connections are established between M. Gorky’s novel «The Artamonov’s Affair» and R.P. Kumov’s drama «End of the Korostomyslov family».
The article deals with Veblen’s vision of social conflict to critically reexamine his political thought. Retracing his intellectual biography, it focuses on three connected aspects: a twofold vision of social conflict that emerges from his reinvention of evolutionism; his reading of socialism in an industrial society; the relevance of an evolutionary concept of technology in order to understand new forms of conflict within the transition to a cooperative working process that is associated with scientific organization and planning. These elements are used to highlight Veblen’s stance towards Progressive Era social sciences and towards institutional and intellectual attempts to control the vagaries and conflicts of industrial capitalism.
<p>Los efectos negativos de la flexibilización del mercado laboral tienden a afectar en mayor medida a los jóvenes. La transición hacia la vida adulta en un contexto mar-cado por la inseguridad hace que se convierta en un proceso más prolongado, no lineal, diferenciado e individualizado. Por esta razón se opta por una perspectiva cualitativa basada en informaciones obtenidas mediante entrevistas semiestructura-das a jóvenes en el área metropolitana de Lisboa. Se presenta una tipología con cuatro tipos de trayectorias de transición de trabajo y de vida. Los diversos tipos se ejemplifican con biografías cercanas a los respectivos tipos ideales de trayectoria. Los diferentes tipos de transición indican las desigualdades y la acumulación de ventajas y desventajas en los diversos aspectos analizados.</p><p>Young people’s employment and life pathways: a qualitative analysis</p><p>Young people tend to be more affected by the negative effects of labour market flexibility. The transition to adulthood, in a context marked by uncertainty, tends to become a more prolonged process, not linear, differentiated and individualized. Hence the choice of a qualitative approach based on information obtained by means of semi-structured interviews with young people in the metropolitan area of Lisbon. It presented a typology of four types of transition pathways. Each type is exemplified with a biography close to their ideal types of trajectory. The various types of transition indicate inequality and accumulation of advantages and disad-vantages in different aspects analyzed.</p>
Anastasia Tsvetayeva’s literary work can be largely defined as autobiographical. Her first pen probe, “Royal reflections,” is a philosophical essay where the author represents herself as a “theomachist” and the debunker of all moral values. Later, Tsvetaeva ventured into the genre of autobiographical novel, yet her novel may be called “autobiographical” only with some reservations. On the one hand, this work reflects real facts of the author’s life. On the other, the narrator, at some points, deliberately departs from truth, obscures and alters the facts, pursuing specific aims. The elements of autobiographical mythmak- ing may be found in the Memoirs of Anastasia Tsvetayeva that would be worthwhile to compare with the autobiographical prose of her elder sister Marina.
The article analyzes the biography of Russian full general A.A. Brusilov − the hero of World War I, whose name is associated with the term “Brusilov Offensive”. The author exa-mines his views on the new situation which developed in Russia during the two revolutions of 1917, and then in the Soviet period. The author highly appreciates the theoretical preparation level of A.A. Brusilov, who got full military education in tsarist Russia; reveals the pre-sence of numerous analogous episodes in the biographies of A.A. Brusilov and A.V. Suvorov. He focuses on the similar origin of two Russian heroes, whose families belonged to the military dynasties of imperial Russia. The author concludes that the continuity of generations is very important in the issue of effective army’s functioning. This tradition was preserved in the new Soviet state.
History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
The paper is focused around two biographical themes. Theme one is history of demolishing Leningrad school of dramatic theory developed in the State Institute of History of Art (GIII) in the 1920s. In 1931, the GIII was closed by a Sovnarkom resolution and transformed into Len- ingrad division of the State Academy of Art Studies (LOGAIS) established by the same resolu- tion. Theme two is description of the ‘academic traumatism’, traumatic behavior and its bio- graphical effects caused by destruction of a whole scientific trend during the anti-formalism campaign of the early 1930s. Based on archival documents (from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art), shorthand notes and reports on discussions of the 1930s, we analyze behav- ioral tactics of initiators, participants and victims of the longstanding stigmatization and catalog absolutory, denunciative and repentant narratives. In particular, this paper analyzes the un- published letter to the editors of Rabochiy i Teatr journal written by Alexander Slonimsky, one of the key players in development and obliteration of dramatic theory associated primarily with Alexei Gvozdev’s group and with transformation and dissolution of the leading humanities in- stitutes. The text of the letter appears to be engrained in the complicated mosaic of measures aimed to discredit Meyerhold’s theater practice and Gvozdev as the leader of the scientific school. Deliberate misinterpretation and corruption of self-descriptions along with reconstruc- tion of biographies are some of the most crucial factors that affected reception of cultural pro- jects and their creators in the 1930s and later.
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar, Style. Composition. Rhetoric
The article examines the problem of the correlation between historic and biographic genres by contrasting what historians, biographers, and philosophers have said on the matter. In doing so, the article raises the question: What does Plutarch mean when he states: “We do not write history, but life histories”?
El artículo acerca al lector a conocer la vida y obra de Javier Ocampo, como académico que logra incidir en las prácticas, en las reformas y en la proyección investigativa de la Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. El trabajo se realizó con la utilización del método biográfico a partir de fuente oral, el cual permite obtener la radiografía de una época a través del reconocimiento de apartes de la vida de un personaje, se realizaron entrevistas a alumnos y compañeros del doctor Ocampo, quienes aportaron experiencias significativas, académicas y personales del maestro, las cuales permitieron conocer algunas situaciones de la vida universitaria y del contexto social en general. El texto está dividido en tres apartes: Javier Ocampo, amigo, Javier Ocampo en la administración, y El
maestro: la investigación y su método.
Palabras clave: investigación, biografía, Javier Ocampo, formación de sus discípulos, historiografía, historia de las
ideas, método doxográfico.
Abstract
It approaches the reader to Javier Ocampo’s life and deed, as an academic who managed to influence in the University UPTC practices, reforms and research projection. This investigation was carried out by the biographic method, starting form de oral source, which allows to obtain a radiography of an epoch throughout the life parts’ acknowledgement of a personage. Some interviews were made with Dr. Ocampo’s students and friends, who provided us with significant experiences, academicals and personals of the teacher, which allowed to know some situations of the university life, and the social context in general. The text is divided in three parts: The friend, the administrator and the teacher: The research and his method.
Key words: Investigation, Biography, Javier Ocampo, Students Formation, Historiography, History of the Ideas.