Born: 29 January 1866 · Died: 30 December 1944 · Age at death: 78
How old was Romain Rolland when he died?
Romain Rolland died aged 78. He was born on 29 January 1866 and died on 30 December 1944.
French novelist of Jean-Christophe and biographer of Beethoven, a committed pacifist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Did you know?He was a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi and wrote a biography of the Indian leader.
Quick facts
Date of birth29 January 1866
Date of death30 December 1944
Age at death78
Cause of deathTuberculosis
NationalityFrench
BirthplaceClamecy, France
Occupationwriter, playwright, essayist
Editor's Take:
Romain Rolland was a French writer who believed art could unite humanity. His ten-volume novel Jean-Christophe follows a German musician inspired partly by Beethoven. He wrote admiring biographies of Beethoven, Michelangelo and Tolstoy. During the First World War he lived in Switzerland and called for peace in his essay Above the Battle. Many in France saw this as betrayal. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915. He later wrote about Gandhi and corresponded with Freud.
Key Milestones
1903: Life of Beethoven – biography
1904: Jean-Christophe – novel begins
1915: Above the Battle – anti-war essays
1915: Nobel Prize in Literature
Romain Rolland (French:; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described…
Romain Rolland's birthday is January 29. He was born on January 29, 1866 in Clamecy, France.
How old was Romain Rolland when he died?
Romain Rolland died on December 30, 1944, aged 78.
Who shares a birthday with Romain Rolland?
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