E. W. Dickes
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Ernest Walter Dickes, most commonly known as E. W. Dickes (1876 - 26 July 1957) was an English journalist for the Manchester Guardian, and translator of over seventy books.
. He became a civil servant in the Admiralty
for twenty years, and spent five years as a dockyard secretary in Malta
. In 1915, as deputy cashier at Portsmouth Dockyard, he was charged with being in possession of false documents. The following year, as a conscientious objector
, he came to the attention of the House of Commons. He spent two years in prison, during which time he learnt Esperanto
.
After the war he joined the Manchester Guardian as a journalist, amongst other things serving as an in-house translator from French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch,
Portugese, Polish, Latin, Greek, Danish,
and Russian.
Dickes married twice: his first wife divorced him in 1936, and he married Doris Whittle.
Life
Dickes was the eldest son of Walter James Dickes and Sarah Annie Dickes. Born in London, he was educated at the City of London SchoolCity of London School
The City of London School is a boys' independent day school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London, England. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls and the co-educational City of London Freemen's School...
. He became a civil servant in the Admiralty
Admiralty
The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the Kingdom of England, and later in the United Kingdom, responsible for the command of the Royal Navy...
for twenty years, and spent five years as a dockyard secretary in Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...
. In 1915, as deputy cashier at Portsmouth Dockyard, he was charged with being in possession of false documents. The following year, as a conscientious objector
Conscientious objector
A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, and/or religion....
, he came to the attention of the House of Commons. He spent two years in prison, during which time he learnt Esperanto
Esperanto
is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
.
After the war he joined the Manchester Guardian as a journalist, amongst other things serving as an in-house translator from French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch,
Portugese, Polish, Latin, Greek, Danish,
and Russian.
Dickes married twice: his first wife divorced him in 1936, and he married Doris Whittle.
Translations
- Hermann LutzHermann LutzHermann Lutz was a German civil servant and writer.From 1919 to 1937 Lutz worked for the Kriegsschuldreferat within the German Foreign Ministry...
, Lord Grey and the Great War, New York: A.A. Knopf, 1928. - Valeriu MarcuValeriu MarcuValeriu Marcu was a Romanian poet, writer and historian. He wrote the first biography of Lenin.Marcu, who was Jewish, migrated from Germany to Austria, and then to France, where he and his wife Eva settled in Nice in 1933. In 1940 Varian Fry helped the family get papers to leave France.-Works:*...
, Lenin. New York: Macmillan Co., 1928. Translated from the German Lenin: 30 Jahre Russland. - Karl Friedrich Nowak, Kaiser and Chancellor; the opening years of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1930
- Karl Friedrich Nowak, Germany's road to ruin; the middle of the reign of Emperor William II, 1932
- Hans KohnHans KohnHans Kohn was a Jewish philosopher and historian. Born in Prague during the Habsburg Empire, he was captured as a prisoner of war during World War I and held in Russia for five years...
, Western civilization in the Near East, 1935 - Andreas LatzkoAndreas LatzkoAndreas Latzko was an Austrian Jewish pacifist and novelist.Andreas Latzko attended grammar school in Budapest and graduated there from high school. He served in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian army as a one-year volunteer and was a reserve officer of the “Ersatzheer”. He went to Berlin,...
, Lafayette, a life, New York: Literary guild, 1936. Translated from the German. - Theodor Wolff, The Eve of 1914, New York: A.A. Knopf, 1936. Translated from the German Der krieg des Pontius Pilatus.
- Antonina Vallentin, Leonardo da Vinci: the tragic pursuit of perfection. New York: Viking, 1938. Translated from the German manuscript.
- Hermann RauschningHermann RauschningHermann Rauschning was a GermanConservative Revolutionary who briefly joined the Nazis before breaking with them. In 1934 he renounced Nazi party membership and defected to the United States where he denounced Nazism...
, The revolution of nihilism: warning to the West. New York: Alliance Book Corp., Longmans, Green & Co, 1939. Translated from the German. - Sergeĭ Chakhotin, The rape of the masses; the psychology of totalitarian political propaganda, New York, Alliance Book Corp., [1940].
- Levin Ludwig SchückingLevin Ludwig SchückingLevin Ludwig Schücking was a German scholar of the English language and English literature. He was the major figure of his time in Germany in English studies, as professor at Leipzig University...
, The sociology of literary taste, 1944 - Wilhelm RöpkeWilhelm RöpkeWilhelm Röpke was Professor of Economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul and finally in Geneva, and the main spiritual father of the German social market economy, theorising and collaborating to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the then destroyed German...
, The solution of the German problem, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1947]. Revised and enlarged ed. of The German question (published London, 1946). Published in Switzerland in 1945 as Die deutsche Frage. - Antonina Vallentin, Mirabeau, New York Viking Press, 1948. Translated from the French works Mirabeau avant la Révolution and Mirabeau dans la Révolution
- Maxime WeygandMaxime WeygandMaxime Weygand was a French military commander in World War I and World War II.Weygand initially fought against the Germans during the invasion of France in 1940, but then surrendered to and collaborated with the Germans as part of the Vichy France regime.-Early years:Weygand was born in Brussels...
, Recalled to Service. Heinemann, London, 1952. - Klaus Günther, Creatures of the deep sea, 1956
- Georg MischGeorg MischGeorg Misch was a German philosopher.-Life and work:He worked as a professor in Marburg and Göttingen before retiring under pressure from the National Socialist government in 1935. He went into exile to the UK, living there from 1939 until 1946...
, The History of Autobiography in Antiquity - Gaetano SalveminiGaetano SalveminiGaetano Salvemini was an Italian anti-fascist politician, historian and writer.- Biography :Salvemini was born in Molfetta, Apulia....
, The Fascist Dictatorship - Grigory SemyonovGrigory SemyonovGrigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, or Semenov , was a Japanese-supported leader of the White movement in Transbaikal and beyond from December 1917 to November 1920, Lieutenant General and Ataman of Baikal Cossacks .-Biography:Semyonov was born in the Transbaikal region of eastern Siberia...
, Conquest of Siberia