Greek mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.
ISIDORE OF SEVILLE 131
* ca. 560 in Cartagena
† Apr. 4, 636 in Seville
Roman Doctor of the Church.
JESUS OF NAZARETH 159, 165, 241
* 7–4 B.C. probably in Nazareth
† ca. A.D. 30/31 in Jerusalem
JOHN THE BAPTIST 72
Early 1st century
Jewish preacher of repentance.
JUNG, Carl Gustav 197
* July 26, 1875 in Kesswil
† June 6, 1961 in Küsnacht
Swiss psychiatrist.
KEPLER, Johannes 239
* Dec. 27, 1571 Jul. in Weil der Stadt
† Nov. 15, 1630 Greg. in Regensburg
German polymath.
KINAU, Gottfried Adolf 227, 240
* Jan. 4, 1814 in Winningen
† Jan. 9, 1888 in Suhl
German pastor & selenographer.
KROMBHOLZ, Julius Vincenz von 229
* Dec. 19, 1782 in Oberpolitz
† Nov. 1, 1843 in Prague
Bohemian mycologist.
LARICHUS 122
LENNÉ, Peter Joseph 137
* Sept. 29, 1789 in Bonn
† Jan. 23, 1866 in Potsdam
Prussian landscape architect.
LESSING, Theodor 20f.
* Feb. 8, 1872 in Hanover
† Aug. 31, 1933 in Marienbad
German author.
LINNÉ, Carl von 192, 232, 241
* May 23, 1707 in Rashult
† Jan. 10, 1778 in Uppsala
Swedish naturalist.
LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA 130
* ca. 120 in Samosata
† before 180 or ca. 200
Greek satirist.
MAGELLAN, Ferdinand 32
* Feb. 3, 1480 in Sabrosa
† Apr. 27, 1521 on Mactan
Portuguese seafarer.
MANI 155ff.
* Apr. 14, 216 in Mardinu
† Feb. 14, 276 or Feb. 26, 277
in Gundeshapur
MARTINI, Simone 236
* 1284 in Siena
† 1344 in Avignon
Italian painter.
MAYER, Julius Robert 235
* Nov. 25, 1814 in Heilbronn
† Mar. 20, 1878 ibid.
German physiologist.
MICHAEL ITALICUS 119
† before 1157
Byzantine scholar.
MONROE, Marilyn (Norma Jeane Mortenson) 106f.
* June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles
† Aug. 5, 1962 ibid.
American film actress.
MONTAGU, John (4th Earl of Sandwich) 29
* Nov. 3, 1718
† Apr. 30, 1792 in Chiswick
MONTEVERDI, Claudio 17
Baptized May 15, 1567 in Cremona
† Nov. 29, 1643 in Venice
Italian composer.
MOURUA 37ff., 39f.
2nd half of the 18th century
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus 22
* Jan. 27, 1756 in Salzburg
† Dec. 5, 1791 in Vienna
MURNAU, Friedrich Wilhelm (Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe) 7, 101, 108, 112
* Dec. 28, 1888 in Bielefeld
† Mar. 11, 1931 in Santa Barbara
MUSSOLINI, Benito 196
* July 29, 1883 in Dovia di Predappio
† Apr. 28, 1945 in Giulino di Mezzegra
Italian politician.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR II 120
* ca. 640 B.C.
† 562 B.C.
Neo-Babylonian king.
NEISON, Edmund (Edmund Neville Nevill) 227
* Aug. 27, 1849 in Beverley
† Jan. 14, 1940 in Eastbourne
British selenographer.
NEUMANN, Therese (Resl von Konnersreuth) 192
* Apr. 1898 in Konnersreuth
† Sept. 18, 1962 ibid.
German mystic.
NOVES, Laura de (Laura de Sade) 236
* 1310 in Avignon
† Apr. 6, 1348
OVID (Publius Ovidius Naso) 122, 165
* Mar. 20, 43 B.C. in Sulmo
† probably A.D. 17 in Tomis
PALLADINO, Eusapia 197
* Jan. 21, 1854 in Minervino Murge
† May 16, 1918 in Naples
Italian spiritualist.
PAUL OF TARSUS 159
* probably before A.D. 10 in Tarsus
† after 60
Jewish missionary and Christian apostle.
PETRARCH, Francesco 233, 236
* July 20, 1304 in Arezzo
† July 19, 1374 in Arqua
Italian humanist.
PHILODEMUS OF GADARA 119, 123
* ca. 110 B.C. in Gadara
† ca. 40–35 B.C. probably in
Herculaneum
Epicurean philosopher.
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista
8, 84ff., 95
* Oct. 4 1720 in Mogliano Veneto
† Nov. 9, 1778 in Rome
PITTACUS 122
* 651/650 B.C.† ca. 570 B.C.
Greek tyrant.
PLATO 123, 232
* 428/427 B.C. in Athens or Aegina
† 348/347 B.C. in Athens
POLLUX, Julius 125
2nd/3rd century
Greek sophist.
POLYGNOTOS 123
5th century B.C.
Greek painter.
PSEUDO-LONGINUS 121, 124, 127
1st century
QIN SHI HUANGDI (Ying Zheng) 18
* 259 B.C. in Handan
† Sept. 10, 210 B.C. in Shaqiu
First Chinese emperor.
RAPHAEL (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) 96
* Apr. 6, or Mar. 28, 1483 in Urbino
† Apr. 6, 1520 in Rome
Italian painter & architect.
REMARQUE, Erich Maria (Erich Paul Remark) 196
* June 22, 1898 in Osnabrück
† Sept. 25, 1970 in Locarno
German author.
ROBERT, Hubert 18, 88ff., 94ff.
* May 22, 1733 in Paris
† Apr. 15, 1808 ibid.
ROCHEFOUCAULD, François de La 201
* Sept. 15, 1613 in Paris
† Mar. 17, 1680 ibid.
French author.
SACCHETTI, Giulio 83, 89, 91f.
* Dec. 17, 1587 in Rome
† June 28, 1663 ibid.
Italian Cardinal of the Curia.
SACCHETTI, Marcello 83
* 1586 in Rome
† Sept. 15, 1629 in Naples
Italian banker.
SAPPHO 8, 17, 119ff.
* between 630 &. c612 B.C.
† ca. 570 B.C.
SCHLEE, George 103, 108ff., 114
* 1901 in St. Petersburg
† 1964 in Paris
Russian-American businessman.
SCHULTHESS, Armand 191ff.
* Jan. 19, 1901 in Neuchâtel
† Sept. 29, 1972 in Auressio
SCHWARZENBERG, Johann Adolf zu 227 f., 234
* May 22, 1799 in Vienna
† Sept. 15, 1888 in Frauenberg
SENECA, Lucius Annaeus 232
* ca. 1 in Corduba
† 65 near Rome
SIMONIDES OF CEOS 14f.
* 557/556 B.C. in Ioulis
† 468/467 B.C. in Acragas
Greek poet.
SCAMANDER 122
SOCRATES 123
* 469 B
.C. in Alopece
† 399 B.C. in Athens
SOLON 120
* ca. 640 B.C. in Athens
† ca. 560 B.C.
Greek statesman.
SPEER, Albert 19
* Mar. 19, 1905 in Mannheim
† Sept. 1, 1981 in London
German architect.
STRABO 123
* ca. 63 B.C. in Amasya
† after A.D. 23
Greek chronicler.
SWEDENBORG, Emanuel 196
* Jan. 29, 1688 in Stockholm
† Mar. 29, 1772 in London
Swedish mystic.
TASMAN, Abel 31
* 1603 in Lutjegast
† Oct. 10, 1659 in Batavia
Dutch seafarer.
TELESILLA 235
1st half of the 5th century B.C.
Greek poetess.
THEMISTOCLES 15
* ca. 524 B.C.
† ca. 459 B.C. in Magnesia
Greek statesman.
THERESE OF LISIEUX (Thérèse de l’Enfant Jésus et de la Sainte Face) 192
* Jan. 2, 1873 in Alençon
† Sept. 30, 1897 in Lisieux
French saint.
TOSELLI, Enrico 199
* Mar. 13, 1883 in Florence
† Jan. 15, 1926 ibid.
Italian composer.
TRAJAN (Marcus Ulpius Traianus) 84, 97
* Sept. 18, 53 in Italica or Rome
† Aug. 8, 117 in Selinus
Roman emperor.
TZETZES, John 119
* ca. 1110 in Constantinople
† ca. 1180 ibid.
Byzantine scholar.
VESALIUS, Andreas (Andries Witting
van Wesel) 86
* Dec. 31, 1514 in Brussels
† Oct. 15, 1564 on Zakynthos
Flemish anatomist & surgeon.
VIRGIL (Publius Vergilius Maro) 90, 95, 233
* Oct. 15, 70 B.C. near Mantua
† Sept. 21, 19 B.C. in Brindisi
Roman poet.
VIVIEN, Renée (Pauline Mary Tarn) 132f.
* June 11, 1877 in London
† Nov. 10, 1909 in Paris
British poet.
WALLIS, Samuel 31
* Apr. 23, 1728 in Camelford
† Jan. 21, 1795 in London
British seafarer.
WASHINGTON, George 8
* Feb. 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County
† Dec. 14, 1799 in Mount Vernon
First American president.
WHITMAN, Walt 8
* May 31, 1819 in West Hills
† Mar. 26, 1892 in Camden
American poet.
WILDER, Billy 107
* June 22, 1906 in Sucha
† Mar. 27, 2002 in Los Angeles
American film director.
WITTE, Wilhelmine 239
* Nov. 17, 1777 in Hanover
† Sept. 17, 1854 ibid.
German astronomer.
WOLF, Max 109
WRIGHT, Hannah 129
ZARMARUS 15
ZOROASTER (Zarathustra) 159, 165
2nd or 1st millennium B.C.
Index of Images and sources
PAGE 28 Map by Ernst Debes marked “Tuanaka?,” published in Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude, edited by Adolf Stieler, Gotha 1872.
PAGE 46 Caspian tiger in Berlin Zoological Gardens in 1899.
PAGE 64 Figura sceleti prope Quedlinburgum efossi. Copperplate engraving by Christian Ludwig Scheidt for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Protogaea, Leipzig 1749.
PAGE 82 Hubert Robert, Capriccio of the Ruins of Villa Sacchetti, watercolor over graphite pencil, 1760, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Inv. 12432.
PAGE 100 Ernst Hofmann, film still from Der Knabe in Blau, 1919.
PAGE 118 The featured fragments of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus XV (1922) No. 1787 show among other things the 70 Voigt and 78 Voigt fragments quoted in the text.
LOVE SONGS OF SAPPHO All the quoted fragments—31 Voigt, 70 Voigt, 78 Voigt, 74 Voigt, 130 Voigt, 163 Voigt and 147 Voigt—were translated into English by Anne Carson and published in If Not, Winter.
PAGE 136 Behrenhoff Palace before 1900, Gützkow Museum collection.
PAGE 154 Page from the Coptic-Manichaean Library from the 4th century, whose text is quoted in the story.
PAGE 172 Caspar David Friedrich: Hafen von Greifswald, 1810–20.
PAGE 190 Armand Schulthess’s Tree of Psychoanalysis, photographed by Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf, 1971.
ENCYCLOPEDIA IN THE WOOD This story is a montage based on the material collected by Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf about Armand Schulthess, in particular his book Armand Schulthess. Rekonstruktion eines Universums, Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich 2011.
PAGE 208 National archive, image 183-1986-0424-304 / Photograph: Peter Heinz Junge.
PAGE 226 The depicted selenograph by Gottfried Adolf Kinau shows the northwestern region of the lunar South Pole, published in Sirius. Zeitschrift für populäre Astronomie, New Series, Volume XI, Issue 8, August 1883.
JUDITH SCHALANSKY was born in Greifswald in former East Germany in 1980 and studied art history and communication design. Her international best seller, Atlas of Remote Islands, won the Stiftung Buchkunst (the Art Book Award) for “the most beautifully designed book of the year,” while her novel The Giraffe’s Neck in an English translation by Shaun Whiteside won a special commendation of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for the best translation from German in 2015. Both books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Schalansky works as a freelance writer and book designer in Berlin, where she is also publisher of a prestigious natural history list at Matthes und Seitz.
JACKIE SMITH studied German and French at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and then undertook a postgraduate diploma in translation and interpreting at the University of Bradford. In 2015 she was selected for the New Books in German Emerging Translators Programme and in 2017 won the Austrian Cultural Forum London Translation Prize. An Inventory of Losses is her first literary translation.
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