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Lord Byron was born on the 22nd January 1788 in London under the name George Gordon Byron and died on the 19th April in 1824 in Greece (Hirschfeld 24; Coleridge). He was the 6th Baron of his family. His mother´s name was Catherine Gordon was heiress of Gight in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) wherefore Lord Byron became later his title. The marriage of Catherine and Lord Byron´s father Captain John 'Mad Jack' Byron was unhappy, for which reason Catherine not only lost her whole money and land in order to pay all the debts but further Lord Byron had to grow up without father. Captain John Byron visited Catherine only ones after giving brith to their son but left her right away again and traveled back to France where he died on the 2nd of August 1791 (Coleridge). | Lord Byron was born on the 22nd January 1788 in London under the name George Gordon Byron and died on the 19th April in 1824 in Greece (Hirschfeld 24; Coleridge). He was the 6th Baron of his family. His mother´s name was Catherine Gordon was heiress of Gight in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) wherefore Lord Byron became later his title. The marriage of Catherine and Lord Byron´s father Captain John 'Mad Jack' Byron was unhappy, for which reason Catherine not only lost her whole money and land in order to pay all the debts but further Lord Byron had to grow up without father. Captain John Byron visited Catherine only ones after giving brith to their son but left her right away again and traveled back to France where he died on the 2nd of August 1791 (Coleridge). | ||
Physically Lord Byron was disabled - his right leg was shorthened cause of an infantile paralysis. In 1799 he attended the Aberdeen Grammar School but when he got his title after the death of his great uncle he changed the school and went to a school at Dulwich, later to Harrow, and in the end attended Trinity College in Cambridge (Coleridge; Kalmer). | Physically Lord Byron was disabled - his right leg was shorthened cause of an infantile paralysis. In 1799 he attended the Aberdeen Grammar School but when he got his title after the death of his great uncle he changed the school and went to a school at Dulwich, later to Harrow, and in the end attended Trinity College in Cambridge (Coleridge; Kalmer). | ||
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- 22nd January 1788
† 19th April 1824
English writer associated with Romanticism and the Byronic hero.
Lord Byron was born on the 22nd January 1788 in London under the name George Gordon Byron and died on the 19th April in 1824 in Greece (Hirschfeld 24; Coleridge). He was the 6th Baron of his family. His mother´s name was Catherine Gordon was heiress of Gight in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) wherefore Lord Byron became later his title. The marriage of Catherine and Lord Byron´s father Captain John 'Mad Jack' Byron was unhappy, for which reason Catherine not only lost her whole money and land in order to pay all the debts but further Lord Byron had to grow up without father. Captain John Byron visited Catherine only ones after giving brith to their son but left her right away again and traveled back to France where he died on the 2nd of August 1791 (Coleridge).
Physically Lord Byron was disabled - his right leg was shorthened cause of an infantile paralysis. In 1799 he attended the Aberdeen Grammar School but when he got his title after the death of his great uncle he changed the school and went to a school at Dulwich, later to Harrow, and in the end attended Trinity College in Cambridge (Coleridge; Kalmer).
Bibliography:
Hirschfeld, Georg. Lord Byron. Menschen, Völker, Zeiten. Eine Kulturgeschichte in Einzeldarstellungen. 14 vols. Ed. Max Kemmerich. Leipzig: Verlag Karl König, 1926.
The Encyclopedia Britannica. Ed. E. H. Coleridge. 1905. Scanned and edited by Jeffrey D. Hoeper. 1999. <http://engphil.astate.edu/gallery/BYRON11.HTML>.
Yolanthes Bibliothek. Ed. A. Kalmer. 2003. <http://www.yolanthe.de/vorw_frame1.htm>