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Alexander Herzen
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Russian author, philosopher, and revolutionary (1812–1870)
Alexander Herzen was a 19th-century Russian thinker who combined literary talent with radical political ideas, becoming one of the most influential critics of tsarist autocracy. His writings and activism made him a central figure in early Russian socialism and helped shape the intellectual foundations of the revolutionary movements that would transform Russia in the decades after his death.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 9
Top works
- My Past and Thoughts Vol. 5
- My Past and Thoughts Vol. 2
- My Past and Thoughts Vol. 3
- My Past and Thoughts Vol. 1
- My Past and Thoughts Vol. 4
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1950
Discography
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- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,098x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,656x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,549x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,605x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,976x
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Quotes
- “Personal freedom is a magnificent thing; by it and by it alone can a nation achieve its true freedom. Man must respect and honor his freedom in himself no less than in his neighbor or in the people at large.”
- “The peasants will be emancipated if there is a future for Rus and for the Slavic world.”
- “An empire that cannot distance itself from such a gruesome sin that so deeply affects its internal structure does not have the right to education, to future development and participation in history.”
- “Без равенства нет брака. Жена, исключённая из всех интересов, занимающих её мужа, чуждая им, не делящая их, — наложница, экономка, нянька, но не жена в полном, в благородном значении слова.”
- “I have a sincere pity for any nation where old heads grow on young shoulders; youth is a matter, not only of years, but of temperament.”
- “A religion of life had come to replace a religion of penance and emaciation, of fasting and prayer. The crucified body had risen in its turn and was no longer abashed Man had reached a harmonious unity: he had discovered that he is a single being not made, like a pendulum, of two different metals,= that check each other; he realised that the foe in his members had ceased to exist.”
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Alexander Herzen, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Briefe aus Italien und Frankreich : (1848 - 1849)
Du développement des idées révolutionaires en Russie
Aus den Memoiren eines Russen, Neue Folge. Petersburg und Nowgorod
Jumor : (De l'humeur)
Sotschinenija Alexander Herzen a. s predislowijem : (Werke; mit einer Vorrede.), 7
Prerwannye raskasy : Isdanie ftoroje. Unterbrochene Erzählungen
Die russische Verschwörung und der Aufstand vom 14. December 1825 : eine Entgegnung auf die Schrift des Baron Modeste Korff: "Die Thronbesteigung Kaiser Nicolaus I. von Russland im Jahre 1825"
![S togo berega : Iskandera [d. i. Alexander Herzen]. (Vom gensitigen Ufer.) (Izdanie wtoroje.). Reiseskizzen](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.digitale-sammlungen.de%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Fv2%2Fbsb10769347_00005%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&type=IMAGE)
S togo berega : Iskandera [d. i. Alexander Herzen]. (Vom gensitigen Ufer.) (Izdanie wtoroje.). Reiseskizzen
Koncy i načala Iskandera
Briefe aus Italien und Frankreich : (1848 - 1849)
Golosa iz Rossii. [red. A. Gercen ; Nikolaj Ogarev]. 3
Russkoi narod i sozialism : Pismo K. J. Michelet. Das russische Volk u. der Socialismus Sendschreiben an J. Michelet. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt
Le Monde Russe et la Révolution, 3. 1840 - 1847
Briefe aus Italien und Frankreich : (1848 - 1849)
Golosa iz Rossii. [red. A. Gercen ; Nikolaj Ogarev]. 6
Golosa iz Rossii. [red. A. Gercen ; Nikolaj Ogarev]. 8
I. Iz sočinenija doktora Krupova, II. Pisʹma iz "Avenue Marigny"
Aus den Memoiren eines Russen, Neue Folge. Petersburg und Nowgorod
Sočinenija A. I. Gercena. 1
Golosa iz Rossii. [red. A. Gercen ; Nikolaj Ogarev]. 4
Sočinenija A. I. Gercena. 2
Sbornik posmerlnych statej. = Œuvres posthumes d'Alexandres Herzen
Golosa iz Rossii. [red. A. Gercen ; Nikolaj Ogarev]. 4
Golosa iz Rossii. [red. A. Gercen ; Nikolaj Ogarev]. 1
Golosa iz Rossii. [red. A. Gercen ; Nikolaj Ogarev]. 9
Golosa iz Rossii. [red. A. Gercen ; Nikolaj Ogarev]. 5. Ob osvoboždenii krestʹjan
Golosa iz Rossii. [red. A. Gercen ; Nikolaj Ogarev]. 7
Golosa iz Rossii. [red. A. Gercen ; Nikolaj Ogarev]. 2
Sotschinenija Alexander Herzen a. s predislowijem : (Werke; mit einer Vorrede.), 5
Le Monde Russe et la Révolution, 2. 1835 - 1840
Sotschinenija Alexander Herzen a. s predislowijem : (Werke; mit einer Vorrede.), 1
Krestschenaja sobstvennost : Das getaufte Eigenthum
Rußlands Novellendichter : Uebertragen und mit biographisch-kritischen Einleitungen von Wilhelm Wolfsohn, 3. Alexander Herzen
![Un Missionnaire républicain en Russie : [par Hertzen], 2](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.digitale-sammlungen.de%2Fiiif%2Fimage%2Fv2%2Fbsb10783106_00007%2Ffull%2Ffull%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&type=IMAGE)
Un Missionnaire républicain en Russie : [par Hertzen], 2
Tjurʹma i ssylka : Gefängniss und Verbannung
Le Monde Russe et la Révolution, 1. 1812 - 1835
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Александр Иванович Герцен, romanized: Aleksándr Ivánovich Gértsen; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – 21 January [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46). His autobiography, My Past and Thoughts (written 1852–1870), is often considered one of the best examples of that genre in Russian literature.
Life
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