Porträt von William James Stillman
Foto: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882, artist. Photograph of charcoal drawing(?) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, dated 1870. · Wikimedia Commons

Autor

William James Stillman

1828–1901

Geboren
1. Juni 1828, Schenectady
Gestorben
6. Juli 1901, Surrey
Staatsangehörigkeit
Vereinigte Staaten
Beruf
Maler, Fotograf, Journalist, Diplomat und Schriftsteller

Leben und Werk

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William James Stillman (June 1, 1828 – July 6, 1901) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. Educated as an artist, Stillman subsequently converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a war correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer. For a time, he also served as United States consul in Rome, and afterward in Crete during the Cretan insurrections. He helped to train the young Arthur Evans as a war correspondent in the Balkans, and remained a lifelong friend and confidant of Evans. Later in life, he seriously considered taking over the excavation at Knossos from Minos Kalokairinos, who had been stopped from further excavation by the Cretan Assembly; he was, however, prevented from pursuing that goal further by a failure to obtain a firman, or permission, to excavate. Stillman wrote several books, one of which, his Autobiography of a Journalist, suggests that he viewed himself primarily as a writer.

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Sammlung

Bücher von William James Stillman

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