Glahn

See especially Richard von Glahn, Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000 – 1700 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

Master's thesis (doctoraalscriptie), University of Utrecht, 1988. von Glahn, Richard.

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

It was the day after this that Glahn got the letter.

Pan 2003

There is quite sufficient of the erratic and unusual in the character of Glahn, the hero, but the tone is more subdued.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

Glahn gripped me by the arm and whispered: “Stop!”

Pan 2003

And with all his chivalrous sacrifice and violent end, Glahn is at best a quixotic hero.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

But Hamsun now is a greater soul than in the days when Glahn, the solitary dweller in the woods, picked up a broken twig from the ground and held it lovingly, because it looked poor and forsaken; or thanked the hillock of stone outside his hut because it stood there faithfully, as a friend that waited his return.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

Glahn, in Pan, apologizes for his uncouth straightforwardness by confessing that he is more at home in the woods, where he can say and do what he pleases without offense.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

Nor is he the central figure to the same extent as Lieutenant Glahn in “Pan” or Kareno in the trilogy.

Hunger 2003

Thus Glahn is haunted by visions of Diderik and Iselin; Johannes writes fragments supposed to be spoken by one Vendt the Monk.

The Growth of the Soil 2003