Harry E. Wedeck (1894–1996)
Auteur de A Treasury of Witchcraft
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Harry E. Wedeck
Putnam's Dark and Middle Ages reader; selections from the 5th to 15th centuries (1964) 26 exemplaires
Classics of Roman literature, from the literary beginnings to the end of the silver age (1964) — Directeur de publication — 14 exemplaires
Classics of Greek literature, from the literary beginnings to the second century A.D (1963) 12 exemplaires
Third Year Latin with Introduction, Notes, Vocabulary, and Grammatical Appendix (1938) 9 exemplaires
The Witchcraft Collection Volume One: Dictionary of Satanism, Dictionary of Witchcraft, and Dictionary of Pagan… (2019) 8 exemplaires
Dictionary of Magic 1 exemplaire
The Compendium of Erotica: Dictionary of Erotic Literature, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, and Love Potions Through the… (2022) 1 exemplaire
Pictorial History of Morals 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Psychopathia sexualis: avec recherches speciales sur l'inversion sexuelle (1886) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 533 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Wedeck, Harry E.
- Date de naissance
- 1894
- Date de décès
- 1996-07
- Sexe
- male
- Lieu de naissance
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- UK
US - Professions
- Classics lecturer
- Courte biographie
- Harry E. Wedeck was a linguistic, scholar of the classics, and observer of spheres beyond the norm. A native of Sheffield, England, Prof. Wedeck was chairman of the department of classical languages at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn from 1935 to 1950 and then taught the classics at Brooklyn College until 1968. Afterward he lectured on medieval studies at the New School for Social Research until 1974. Some of his excursions into the unusual remain available in reprint editions. They include Dictionary of Astrology, A Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, A Treasury of Witchcraft and Triumph of Satan. They were originally written near the end of Prof. Wedeck’s career, when he was steeped in the classics as an educator in the New York City school and college system.
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Mortal hunger: A novel based on the life of Lafcadio… par Harry Ezekiel Wedeck
Interesting, poignant novelization of Lafacadio Hearn's life - someone I've always found fascinating. However, it's a bit dated and has some rascist overtones at times...At one point Hearn embraces a black woman: "Madly he felt her muscles ripple responsively, and he sensed the primal odor of her, wafted from remote tribal haunts." Hearn was an expat most of his life and only when he was about to die did he obtain any real recognition.
Dr Wedeck, a lecturer in classics at Brooklyn College, in the briefest of Forewords, describes his work as "a dictionary that embraces the lexicographical field of words, phrases, and allusions that stem from classical sources". Where Greeks and Romans had a word for it, here it is.
A book from my childhood
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 29
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 711
- Popularité
- #35,656
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 60
- Langues
- 1