Anniversary Of Death Research Articles

大極殿院の規模とその思想・計画・設計に関する一考察

All of the Imperial Audience Hall of State Compound ,which we can know now, have the corridors. These corridors have the incomprehensible numbers at the length of themselves on the remains. But the master plans that I think were made of the multiple of some numbers, the ratio of East-West length to North-South length made simple integer numbers. The numeral 9 40 and 26 were the holy numbers. The 9 was related to the anniversary of Tenmu Tennou's death and Taoism. 40 was related to the Yi-King. and 26 were related to the lunar-solar calendar because 19 solar years was equal to 235 lunar months (19 × 12 lunar months +7 bissextiles). The appointed textbook of science and the thought in 8th century show us the meaning of such numbers. I think that these numbers expressed the cosmic composition, but the designer changed the length of the corridor on the stage of the design of each building. I guessed that the plans of the Imperial Audience Hall of State Compound were made by Onmyo-Ryo which was the bureau of astrology, calendar and divination, and the plans implied the idea that Tennou manages the space and the time.

Marion B Sulzberger's Legacy, Or the Privilege of Learning: Remarks on Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of His Death—A Perspective from Abroad

Marion B Sulzberger's Legacy, Or the Privilege of Learning: Remarks on Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of His Death—A Perspective from Abroad

In Memory of Professor Ivan Yakovlevich Bashilov (To 50th Anniversary of His Death)

In Memory of Professor Ivan Yakovlevich Bashilov (To 50th Anniversary of His Death)

Пушкин в «воспоминаниях» Марины Цветаевой

Marina Cvetaeva wrote a narrative prose work My Pushkin in France in 1937 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the poet's death. Written in the form of autobiographical memories the work is distinctly set off from occasional essayistic writing then prevailing in emigration circles. In this article the author attempts firstly to enlighten the reasons that prompted Marina Cvetaeva to present Pushkin from an ultimately subjective and inner perspective such as only the autobiographical memory of the proper childhood can offer, i.e. the reasons that made her use rather introspection than the spirit of collective memory (as understood by M. Halbwachs), which took hold of the Russian emigration in the jubilee-year of 1937. Secondly the article analyses the work itself and the mechanism of the autobiographical memory by Cvetaeva herself, which may account for the fact that Cvetaeva's presentation of Pushkin was so different from the stereotypes taken for granted in the emigration community. The peculiar qualit...

Celebrating the first anniversary of death of the founding member of the Advisory Board of AI & Society

Celebrating the first anniversary of death of the founding member of the Advisory Board of AI & Society

Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century (review)

This far-reaching study was originally published at Darmstadt in 1994 as Gregor von Tours (538-594) ,,Zehn Bücher Geschichte". Historiographie und Gesellschaftskonzept im 6. Jahrhundert. It appeared during the 1400th anniversary of Gregory's death, when many learned conferences on the historian took place, especially in France. Martin Heinzelmann, long-time editor of the journal Francia, has published at least eleven articles on Gregory in addition to this book. With Pascale Bourgain, he is preparing a new critical edition of the Histories. He is uniquely qualified to shed light on Gregory.

Johann August Philipp Gesner (1738–1801). A Review of His Essay “The Language Amnesia” in The Bicentennial Anniversary of His Death

On the 200th anniversary of Johann August Philipp Gesner's death, this paper summarizes and discusses a paper on language amnesia published in 1770. The author had clear knowledge of selective mental impairments resulting from brain diseases, and of separate mental representations for words and their underlying concepts. However, to explain the language impairment, Gesner suggested that it would not be caused by focal damage to a specific anatomic and functional unit of the mind, but is the consequence of a general sluggishness of the mental processes.

Walter Stoeckel (1871-1961) on the Occasion of his 40thDeath Anniversary

„Am 3. Januar 1925 starb Bumm. In den 21 gynäkologischen Königreichen Deutschlands saßen die Ordinarien hellwach auf ihren Thronen und blickten gespannt nach Berlin in die Artilleriestraße, die heute Tucholskystraße heißt, wo das bedeutendste aller Königreiche lag, sagen wir ruhig: das Kaiserreich unter den deutschen Universitätsfrauenkliniken. Der ‚Kaiser’ war tot - wer würde sein Nachfolger? Es sprach sich bald herum, dass sich von den 21 Königen höchstens vier Hoffnungen machen durften, in die engere Wahl zu kommen. Es waren Franz (Berliner Charité), Sellheim (Halle), Schröder (Kiel) und ich.”- so Stoeckel in seiner Autobiografie.

Recovered in Kiev: Bach et al. A Preliminary Report on the Music Archive of the Berlin Sing-Akademie

It was a fortunate coincidence that the Notenarchiv (historical music collection) of the Berlin Sing-Akademie, long missing and believed to be lost, emerged in 1999 on the eve of the 250th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death. This breakthrough resulted from years of effort on my part, in collaboration with the Russian Research Center of Harvard University and, in particular, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI). Since 1991, my colleagues Patricia Grimsted of Cambridge and Hennadii Boriak of Kiev had been compiling an inventory of West European political and historical archival holdings in Ukraine for HURI's research project "Trophies of War and Empire: The Archival Heritage of Ukraine, World War II, and the Politics of Restitution." The so-called trophy materials captured at the end of the Second World War by the Red Army and distributed throughout the provinces of the former Soviet Union were invariably held, like all archival possessions in socialist states, under the jurisdiction of state security services, the former KGB. Hence, official inquiries usually remained unanswered. Like everyone else, the HURI scholars had again and again encountered utter silence in response to their questions regarding trophy materials, even after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Results were often more readily obtained through unofficial channels, as turned out to be the case with the Sing-Akademie music collection. 1

Jean-Pierre Torrell's Research on Thomas Aquinas

In the 20th century while Thomas Aquinas was being rediscovered, the work of scholars such as Marie-Dominique Chenu and Etienne Gilson, Bernard Lonergan and Yves Congar explored the Middle Ages which expanded our knowledge of the theological depths of Aquinas. Since the 700th anniversary (1974) of Aquinas's death, an abundance of studies have appeared. Torrell's Initiation a saint Thomas d'Aquin, is a kind of crown to all this research in the past century. Torrell has written other valuable studies on Aquinas; the goal of this note is to make known the breadth of Torrell's writings on Aquinas, few of which are translated into English.

William Alexander Hammond: The Centenary of His Death

In the United States, the field of clinical neurology began within the medical practice of a single physician, William Alexander Hammond. In the 1870s, this New York medical practitioner became the first American physician who limited his practice to patients who suffered from symptoms potentially due to dysfunction of the nervous system. From the experience of his huge practice, Hammond wrote the first American textbook of neurology. With Silas Weir Mitchell, he founded the American Neurological Association. The year 2000 marked the 100th anniversary of Hammond's death and stimulates this brief survey of his life.

"The Salesman Has a Birthday": Essays Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman ed. by Stephen A. Marino, and: Student Companion to Arthur Miller by Susan C.W. Abbotson, and: Understanding Death of a Salesman: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents by Brenda Murphy and Susan C.W. Abbotson (review)

"The Salesman Has a Birthday": Essays Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman ed. by Stephen A. Marino, and: Student Companion to Arthur Miller by Susan C.W. Abbotson, and: Understanding Death of a Salesman: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents by Brenda Murphy and Susan C.W. Abbotson (review)

Max Uhle y El Peru Antiguo, edited by Peter Kaulicke Roennann, Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru

This volume consists of a set of papers presented at a colloquium at Pontifica Universidad Catolica in Lima, Peru, on September 7-8, 1994, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Friedrich Max Uhle's death. The publication includes all of the papers presented at the meeting, with an additional paper by Cerron-Palomino who was invited to fill a gap dealing with Uhle's linguistic contributions, plus another paper by Hampe, which had been presented at a Berlin symposium in 1994, also held to honor Uhle. The volume is divided into two parts: the first part of 171 pages including 8 chapters by various commentators evaluating Max Uhle's works, and the second part of 184 pages, consisting of the translation into Spanish of five of the major works of Uhle originally published in German (or English) along with a short introduction, and an updated bibliography of the works of Uhle.

Fathers, doctors, and time.

This year, the anniversary of my father's death hurt more than ever. I began to wonder how often I appeared to the children of my seriously ill patients like the doctors who took care of my father ...

Bodies of Evidence: Imperial Funeral Rites and the Meiji Restoration

Prior to the Meiji period (1868-1912) imperial funerals and memorial rites in Japan had been conducted as Buddhist ceremonies for over a millennium. It is said that the emperor Meiji's father, K6mei, was buried according to Buddhist protocols; it was not until memorial rites in 1869 marking the third anniversary of K6mei's death that all vestiges of Buddhist liturgy were ostensibly proscribed as part of a wider attempt to purify the nation of the evil of Buddhism. But these observations tend to obscure what is actually known about the imperial mortuary tradition, especially at critical moments in its modern metamorphosis. This essay questions the historical judgment that K6mei's mortuary rites mark a clean break with tradition, suggesting instead that the twentieth-century conventions of imperial mortuary practice did not in fact get established until after the Meiji period had come to an end.

Toward a twenty-first-century Bach biography

For admirers of Johann Sebastian Bach, the year 2000 did not just mark the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. It was also the 50th anniversary of the modem era of Bach research-a period that produced some of the most impressive achievements ever recorded in the annals of musical scholarship. This golden age of Bach scholarship-if we, the participants in it, may so smugly refer to it thus-began in 1950, the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, with the publication of Wolfgang Schmieder's Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV)1 and the decision to prepare a new complete critical edition of Bach's works, the Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA).2 Work on the NBA, only now approaching completion, led in turn to the development of new empirical methods-methods such as paper, ink, and handwriting analysis (previously more typical of disciplines like criminology than musicology)-in order to organize the materials and lift the indispensable tasks of establishing authenticity and dating sources from the realm of largely subjective impression. They have since become indispensable for all basic musicological research. An unexpected and, as it turned out, epochal consequence of this sorting activity was logged before the end of the 1950s when Alfred Diurr and Georg von Dadelsen (the Crick and Watson of Bach research), working in friendly rivalry, succeeded in constructing a chronology of virtually the entire corpus of Bach's vocal music precise enough to date the majority of Bach's vocal compositions to within a week.3 In demonstrating that the vast majority of Bach's surviving Leipzig church music, consisting of some 150 compositions, had been written between 1723 and 1727, Durr and Dadelsen had completely overturned the conventional view of how a major stretch of Bach's career had unfolded. It seemed almost as if Bach had been in a hurry to get the job of composing cantatas over with. And if he had not been spending a substantial portion of his twenty-seven years as Thomas cantor composing church music, then what had he been doing? The prevailing understanding of Bach's life and outlook and artistic development clearly had to be reconsidered.

Poe abroad: influence, reputation, affinities

In this work, the editor has brought together a collection of essays that document the American writer's influence on the diverse literatures - and writers - of the world. Over 20 scholars demonstrates how and why the Baltimore writer as significantly influenced many of the major literary figures of the last 150 years. Part one includes studies of Poe's popularity among general readers, his influence on literary movements, and his reputation as a poet, fiction writer, and literary critic. Part two presents analyses of the role Poe played in the literary development of specific writers representing many different cultures. This book commemorates the 150th anniversary of Poe's death and celebrates his worldwide impact, beginning with the first literal translation of Poe into a foreign language, The Gold-Bug into French in 1845. Charles Baudelaire translated another Poe tale in 1848 and years later wrote an essay that would make Poe a well-known author in Europe even before he achieved recognition in America. Poe died knowing only that some of his stories had been translated into French. He probably never would have imagined that his work would be admired and imitated as far away as Japan, China, and India or would have lasting influence on writers such as Baudelaire, August Strindberg, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, and Tanizaki Junichiro.

Bergson's Spinozist Tendencies

In a letter to Uon Brunschvicg declining an invitation to attend a conference commemorating 250th anniversary of death of Spinoza, Bergson wrote: One could say that all philosophers have two philosophies: their and that of Spinoza.1 It could be said that Bergson's own philosophy is reconception of time following emergence of evolution as a science and discovery of entropy as an irreversible process. As above quotation suggests, however, Bergson's thought on time must be seen as taking place from Spinozism. In this respect, entire oeuvre can be regarded as an effort to rethink as an evolving or, in Bergson's terms, thing. In accordance with this, in The Creative Mind Bergson describes as; substantial, indivisible insofar as it is pure duration but adds that the permanence of substance [is] ... a continuity of change.2 Broadly speaking, Bergsonism can be seen as reconfiguration of Spinozism post Darwin and in light of Boltzmann: that is, as immanence given evolution, entropy, and irreversible time. With introduction of change as only eternal aspect of substance, Spinozian conception of immanent causation, as expression of invariant causes, requires revision. Bergson provides this with concept of virtual tendency. The signifies an immanent, productive mode of causality where change itself is causa sui. This transformation, however, alters both relation between Spinoza's natura naturata (nature according to its products or modes) and natura naturans (nature itself as a thinking thing), and relation between attributes of and Bergson suggests that if time is incorporated into substance effect for him on Spinozism is to accept his philosophy as it is, on side of Extension, but to mutilate it on side of Thought.3 Departing from Spinoza, Bergson draws a qualitative distinction between and thought, defining them as antagonistic tendencies of persistence and change. As thought and are no longer parallel, Bergson distinguishes two equally qualitatively differing forms of common notions: those derived from and those expressed in duration. The aim of what follows be to read Bergson beside Spinoza, not only to reveal indebtedness to Spinoza but, in accordance with intricate nature of Spinoza's ontology, to indicate a far greater complexity and coherence to Bergson's thought than has been observed by most commentators thus far. Problems such as exclusivity of intellect and intuition, conflict between science and philosophy and supposed dichotomy of matter and memory, can all be dispelled when they are seen as attributes of a single enduring substance. Further to this, in reading Bergson next to Spinoza, beginnings of first ontological understanding of implications of Darwin's intuition that nature thinks itself can be discerned. If Spinoza presents problem of immanence of substance to thought, Bergson adds further complication of immanence of change within thought itself. And, as Bergson repeatedly stated, this is great unthought of both philosophy and science. For what limits of scientific and philosophical deduction reveal is that nature does not think like us. The revolution that Bergson insists philosophy must undertake is to relinquish quest to grasp movement of change in thought and to conceive apprehension and expression of change as Essential Freedom The term tendency is first employed in Time and Free Will as a means of critiquing idea of free will without resorting to either determinism or chance. For most part, Bergson's critique replicates Spinoza's. In Ethics Spinoza refutes Cartesian idea of a distinct from, and governing, body. His argument is primarily ontological: where Descartes' held that mind and body are two distinct substances, former determining, or acting on latter, Spinoza conceived of a single substance which expresses its modifications (affectiones) through attributes of extension and thought. …

Energy, Entropy: On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Josef Loschmidt's Death in 1895: Is Loschmidt's Greatest Discovery Still Waiting for Its Discovery?

Energy, Entropy: On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Josef Loschmidt's Death in 1895: Is Loschmidt's Greatest Discovery Still Waiting for Its Discovery?

Deformation analysis of laser spectra based on S-R decomposition theorem

In the Fourier spectral analyzer, the Fourier spectra or the Fraunhofer diffraction pattern of an image is formed on the back focal plane when a laser beam is directed on the image lying on the front focal plane. If the image is deformed, its Forier spectra are also subjected to change. Therefore the change of the Fourier spectra provides a particular beautiful insight into the deformation of that image. Through proposing the corresponding relationship between the image and its spectra, and analyzing the change of Fourier spectra, the deformation of the image can be obtained. Based on Fourier optical theory and S-R decomposition theorem of finite deformation, in this paper, a state of the art deformation measurement technique is presented by using laser spectral analysis. The theoretical foundation of this new technique related to mathematics and optics, experimental principle and the technique of automatic recognizing and processing of the deformed spectral image is discussed. The paper is as a special commemoration and memorial to the death anniversary of Professor Chen Zhida (1927–1998), who initially proposed the above academic idea in early 80s.