William Wilde
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Sir William Robert Wills Wilde (n. 1815 – d. 19 aprilie 1876) a fost un oftalmolog irlandez, dar şi un autor de diferite lucrări semnificative de medicină, arheologie şi literatură populară irlandeză, pe diferite teme şi subiecte referitoare la Irlanda. Este de asemenea cunoscut ca fiind tatăl lui Oscar Wilde.
William Wilde was born at Kilkeevin, near Castlerea, in County Roscommon and received his initial education at the Elphin Diocesan School in Elphin, County Roscommon and subsequently, in 1837, earned his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was awarded a knighthood in 1864 for his medical contributions and his involvement with the Irish census - he had been appointed medical commissioner to the Irish census in 1841. He ran his own hospital - St Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital for Diseases of the Eye and Ear - in Dublin and was appointed to serve as Oculist-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria. At one point, Wilde performed surgery on the father of another famous Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw.
Wilde had a very successful medical practice and was assisted in it by his natural son, Henry Wilson, who had been trained in Dublin, Vienna, Heidelberg, Berlin, and Paris. Wilson’s presence enabled Wilde to travel and he visited Scandinavia, where he received an honorary degree from Uppsala, and was welcomed in Stockholm by Retzius, among others. King Karl XV of Sweden conferred on him the Nordstjärneorden (Order of the North Star).
Wilde married the poet Jane Francesca Agnes Elgee in 1851, who wrote and published under the name of Speranza. The couple had two sons: Willie and Oscar Wilde, and a daughter, Isola Francesca, who died in childhood. In addition to Henry Wilson, William Wilde had two other illegitimate children by earlier liaisons, Emily and Mary Wilde, both of whom died in a tragic fire accident in 1871.
[modifică] Publicaţii
- 1840 -- Descrirea unei călătorii la Madeira, Teneriffe şi de-a lungul ţărmurilor Mediteranei, în original The Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and Along the Shores of the Mediterranean
- 1849 -- Frumuseţile [locurilor] Boyne şi Blackwater, în original The beauties of the Boyne and the Blackwater
- 1867 -- Lough Corrib, ţărmurile şi insulele sale, în original Lough Corrib, its Shores and Islands, prima ediţie
- Ultimii ani ai lui Dean Swift, în original The closing years of the life of Dean Swift
- Epidemiile Irelandei, în original The Epidemics of Ireland
