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unusual facts about magnum opus



A. D. Lublinskaya

Her magnum opus was a series of books on the history of the administration of Richelieu.

Bruno Hildebrand

His magnum opus was Economics of the Present and the Future (1848).

David Bensusan-Butt

A nephew of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and the son of Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877–1957), the first woman doctor to work in Essex, Bensusan-Butt was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes and indexed Keynes's magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Evelyn Rose

Her magnum opus on Jewish cuisine, the Complete International Jewish Cookbook was published in 1976, and has been revised three times since, most recently in 2011.

H. C. Bailey

He appears in eleven novels published between 1930 and 1950, including The Sullen Sky Mystery (1935), widely regarded as Bailey's magnum opus.

Johannes Peter Müller

The appearance of his magnum opus, Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen, between 1833 and 1840 (translated into English as “Elements of Physiology” by William Baly, and published in London 1837–1843) marked the beginning of a new period in the study of physiology.

Karbala Ta Karbala

He also wrote Ghazals and nazms and an epic, Shahr-e Hawas, which is considered his magnum opus.

Kim Jeong-ho

It is believed that he walked the entire length and breadth of the Korean peninsula, through mountain and valley, in order to research and compile his magnum opus, the Daedongyeojido, (대동여지도, 大東輿地圖) a map of Korea that was published in 1861, from which was subsequently made a single-sheet version, the Daedongyeojijeondo (대동여지전도 大東與地全圖).

Manoj Bharathiraja

From 2008 til 2010, he worked as an assistant to director S. Shankar in his forthcoming magnum opus Enthiran.

Neurosis and Human Growth

Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization is the magnum opus of German-American psychoanalyst Karen Horney.

Pro Milone

Despite its failure to secure an acquittal, the surviving rewrite is considered to be one of Cicero's best works: thought by many to be the magnum opus of his rhetorical repertoire.

Romeo Cascarino

His music is generally tonal, and his magnum opus is the opera William Penn, whose life had fascinated Cascarino since childhood.

Sarah Curran

Washington Irving, one of America's greatest early writers, devoted "The Broken Heart" in his magnum opus The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. to the romance between Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran, citing it as an example of how a broken heart can be fatal.

Yaşar Nuri Öztürk

His magnum opus, “The Islam of the Qur’an,” is considered one of the pioneering works of the “Back to the Qur’an” movement.


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Adam McLean

In 1978 he founded the Hermetic Journal which he published until 1992 during which time he also started publishing the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, a series of thirty nine editions (to 2011) of key source texts of the hermetic tradition.

Alexander Carr-Saunders

The success of his magnum opus The Population Problem resulted in his appointment to the Charles Booth Chair of Social Science at the University of Liverpool in 1923.

Banarsi Prasad Saxena

He was an expert on Emperor Shah Jahan, and his magnum opus Shah Jahan of Dilli (The subject of his PhD.) is regarded as the most authoritative text of that period and has run to several editions.

Battle of Amoy

Rosa Luxemburg provides a brief account of the battle in her magnum opus The Accumulation of Capital.

Carantanians

Several rebellions of the Carantanians against the Christianisations occurred in the late 8th century, which later served as the source of inspiration of the Slovenian Romantic poet France Prešeren in his magnum opus, the Baptism on the Savica.

Deg Tegh Fateh

Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha, too, has mentioned it in his magnum opus Mahan Kosh (p. 1165 of the 1999 edition).

Ferdo Šišić

History of the Croats under the Arpad Kings (1102-1301), an unfinished compilation published after his death, is generally considered below the level of his magnum opus.

Gadjo dilo

Music plays another major role in the film, echoing Gatlif's magnum opus, Latcho Drom.

J. G. A. Pocock

The Machiavellian Moment (1975), his widely acclaimed magnum opus, showed how Florentines, Englishmen, and Americans had responded to and analysed the destruction of their states and political orders in a succession of crises sweeping through the early modern world.

Law of rent

The Law of rent was formulated by David Ricardo around 1809, and presented in its most developed form in his magnum opus, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.

Mahé River

M. Mukundan's magnum opus Mayyazhi Puzhayude Theerangalil (P. 1974 ; Malayalam for "On the banks of the Mahé River"), celebrates this river.Mayyazhi river known as the "English channel" in India during the period of British rule, because it separated British-ruled Talasery from French-ruled Mahe.

Malcolm McKesson

All of these are developed in his magnum opus, Matriarchy: Freedom in Bondage, a semi-autobiographical erotic novella that has been compared to such classics as Venus in Furs and Story of O.

MC Eiht

The song, "Streiht Up Menace," which chronicles the unfortunate downturn of the film's protagonist within the pathological conditions of American inner city life, is considered by many critics to be Eiht's magnum opus.

R. H. Ives Gammell

During the war years, he began work on his book, Twilight of Painting, and also started making plans for what would become his magnum opus, a series of paintings based on Francis Thompson's poem "The Hound of Heaven."

Siciliana

Hungarian composer, György Kurtág references the style in a surprising way in his 1987 magnum opus, "Kafka-Fragmente" Op.24, for soprano and violin in the movement "Der Wahre Weg."

Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura

Music of the Bible Revealed was her magnum opus; a massive work covering the entire Hebrew Bible, decoding the cantillation marks (as musical notes which support the syntax and meaning of the words) of its 24 books, to music.

The Golovlyov Family

The Golovlyov Family (Gospoda Golovlyovy, Господа Головлёвы) is a novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, written in the course of five years, first published in 1880 by Alexey Suvorin's publishing house, and generally regarded as the author's magnum opus.

Woes of the True Policeman

Larry Rohter in his review of the English translation in the New York Times said "The novel offers readers plot lines and characters that supplement or propose variations on Mr. Bolaño’s 900-page magnum opus, 2666".