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<p><b>Donald Adamson</b> (* <a href="30._M%C3%A4rz" title="30. März">30. März</a> <a href="1939" title="1939">1939</a> in <a href="Culcheth_and_Glazebury" title="Culcheth and Glazebury">Culcheth</a>, <a href="Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a>; † <a href="18._Januar" title="18. Januar">18. Januar</a> <a href="2024" title="2024">2024</a> in <a href="Polperro" title="Polperro">Polperro</a>, <a href="Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>) war ein britischer <a href="Historiker" title="Historiker">Historiker</a>, <a href="Kritiker" class="mw-redirect" title="Kritiker">Kritiker</a> und <a href="%C3%9Cbersetzer" title="Übersetzer">Übersetzer</a> französischer Literatur (<a href="Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac" title="Honoré de Balzac">Honoré de Balzac</a>, <a href="Guy_de_Maupassant" title="Guy de Maupassant">Guy de Maupassant</a>).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biografie">Biografie</h2></div>
<p>Geboren als Sohn eines Landwirts,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> erhielt Adamson 1959 den Grad eines <a href="Bachelor_of_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> am <a href="Magdalen_College" title="Magdalen College">Magdalen College</a> der <a href="Universit%C3%A4t_Oxford" class="mw-redirect" title="Universität Oxford">Universität Oxford</a> und von 1959 bis 1960 das <a href="Zaharoff" class="mw-redirect" title="Zaharoff">Zaharoff</a>-<a href="Stipendium" title="Stipendium">Stipendium</a>. 1971 erhielt Adamson den Grad <a href="Ph.D." title="Ph.D.">Doctor of Philosophy</a> der <a href="University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Universität Oxford</a> für eine bei <a href="Jean_Seznec" title="Jean Seznec">Jean Seznec</a> am <a href="All_Souls_College" title="All Souls College">All Souls’ College</a> verfasste <a href="Promotion_(Doktor)" title="Promotion (Doktor)">Doktorarbeit</a> mit dem Titel <i>Balzac and the Visual Arts</i>.
</p><p>Von 1969 bis 1989 lehrte er am <a href="Goldsmiths%2C_University_of_London" title="Goldsmiths, University of London">Goldsmiths’ College der Universität London</a>, ehe er 1989 zum <a href="Gastdozent" title="Gastdozent">Gastdozenten</a> am <a href="Wolfson_College_(Oxford)" title="Wolfson College (Oxford)">Wolfson College</a> der <a href="University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Universität Cambridge</a> ernannt wurde. Er war auch <a href="Fellow" title="Fellow">Fellow</a> der <a href="Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a> (FRSL),<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> der <a href="Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London" title="Society of Antiquaries of London">Society of Antiquaries of London</a> (FSA) und der <a href="Royal_Historical_Society" title="Royal Historical Society">Royal Historical Society</a> (FRHistS).
</p><p>Politisch engagierte er sich für die Förderung von Museen, Gemäldegalerien und Bibliotheken des <a href="Vereinigtes_K%C3%B6nigreich" title="Vereinigtes Königreich">Vereinigten Königreichs</a> und setzte sich erfolgreich für die Schaffung des <a href="National_Heritage_Memorial_Fund" title="National Heritage Memorial Fund">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> ein. Er war verheiratet und hatte zwei Kinder.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>2012/13 war er <a href="Meister" title="Meister">Zunftmeister</a> der <a href="London" title="London">Londoner</a> <a href="Worshipful_Company_of_Curriers" title="Worshipful Company of Curriers">Curriers' Company</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schriften_(Auswahl)"><span id="Schriften_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Schriften (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<p>Adamson veröffentlichte Untersuchungen über <a href="Blaise_Pascal" title="Blaise Pascal">Pascal</a>, <a href="Oskar_Kokoschka" title="Oskar Kokoschka">Oskar Kokoschka</a> und die <a href="Franz%C3%B6sische_Romantik" title="Französische Romantik">Französische Romantik</a>:
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<dl><dt>Monographien</dt></dl>
<ul><li><i>The Genesis of „<a href="Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac" title="Honoré de Balzac">Le Cousin Pons</a>“</i>, Oxford 1966.</li>
<li><i><a href="Blaise_Pascal" title="Blaise Pascal">Blaise Pascal</a>: Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker about God.</i> London und New York 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Les Romantiques français devant la peinture espagnole.</i> London 1989.</li></ul>
<dl><dt>Aufsätze</dt></dl>
<ul><li>„<a href="Oskar_Kokoschka" title="Oskar Kokoschka">Oskar Kokoschka</a> at Polperro“, in <i>The Cornish Banner</i>, November 2009, S. 19–33.</li>
<li>„<a href="Blaise_Pascal" title="Blaise Pascal">Pascal</a>’s Views on Mathematics and the Divine“, in <i>Mathematics and the Divine: A Historical Study</i>, Amsterdam 2005, S. 405–421.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Auszeichnungen">Auszeichnungen</h2></div>
<ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"></span> Knight of Justice des britischen <a href="Order_of_Saint_John" title="Order of Saint John">Order of Saint John</a></li>
<li><span typeof="mw:File"></span> Offizier des französischen <a href="Ordre_des_Arts_et_des_Lettres" title="Ordre des Arts et des Lettres">Ordre des Arts et des Lettres</a></li>
<li><span typeof="mw:File"></span> Ritter des französischen <a href="Ordre_des_Palmes_Acad%C3%A9miques" title="Ordre des Palmes Académiques">Ordre des Palmes Académiques</a></li>
<li><span typeof="mw:File"></span> Verdienstkreuz des <a href="Verdienstorden_Pro_Merito_Melitensi" title="Verdienstorden Pro Merito Melitensi">Malteser-Ritterordens „pro Merito Melitensi“</a>
<ul><li><a href="Justice_of_the_Peace" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice of the Peace">Justice of the Peace</a> (<a href="City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul>
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<div class="sisterproject" style="margin:0.1em 0 0 0;"><div class="noresize noviewer" style="display:inline-block; line-height:10px; min-width:1.6em; text-align:center;" aria-hidden="true" role="presentation"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Commons"></span></span></div><b><span class=""><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Donald_Adamson?uselang=de"><span lang="en">Commons</span>: Donald Adamson</a></span></b> – Sammlung von Bildern</div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/9422/Donald-ADAMSON"><i>Debrett's People of Today</i></a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dodmore.co.uk/">private Homepage Adamsons</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.burkespeerage.com/new_records.php?record=Booth">www.burkespeerage.com</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rsliterature.org/fellows/">www.rsliterature.org</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thepeerage.com/p34696.htm#i346957"><i>Donald Adamson</i></a> auf <i>thepeerage.com</i>, abgerufen am 16. September 2016. </span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.curriers.co.uk/">www.curriers.co.uk</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r261891140">
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://magistrates.judiciary.uk/">www.magistrates.judiciary.uk</a></span>
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