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阿尔伯特·哈伯德1856年7月19日哈伯德出生于美国伊利诺州的布鲁明顿，父亲既是农场主又是乡村医生。他在塔福学院获得学士学位，又在芝加哥大礼堂获得法学博士学位。他曾经做过教师、出版商、编辑和演说家，1895年，在纽约东奥罗拉创立了罗伊克夫特公司，制造和销售各种手工艺品，随后又开设了一家印刷装订厂。1899年，他根据安德鲁·萨默斯·罗文的英勇事迹，创作了鼓舞人心的《致加西亚的信》。
1899年，阿尔伯特·哈伯德创作了《把信送给加西亚》，在《菲士利人》杂志上发表后，引起了全世界的强烈轰动，这本小册子在世界各地广为流传，全球销量超过8亿册，成为有史以来世界上最畅销的读物之一，列入全球最畅销图书排行榜第六名。1908年，阿尔伯特·哈伯德在《把信送给加西亚》的基础上，又创作了内容更全面，思想更深刻的商业佳作《双赢规则》，更深入地阐述了主动、自信、敬业、忠诚、勤奋的伟大思想。该书是对，《把信送给加西亚》一书思想的高度提炼和升华，是作者商业思想最完美的集合；同时，也是一本为人们带来成功与财富的神奇读物。近一个世纪以来，全世界无数的政府、企业、军队和学校，都将此读物作为公务员、职员、士兵和大学生的培训读本，影响了一代又一代人的思想。
哈伯德终生致力于出版和写作，除了为自创的两份杂志撰稿外，其主要著作还有《短暂的旅行》、《现在的力量》、《自己是最大的敌人》、《一天》等。
1915年5月7日，哈伯德和他的妻子乘坐路西塔尼亚号客轮不幸在爱尔兰海遇难。
相关图书： 《致加西亚的信(全译本)》 (美)阿尔伯特·哈伯德著 吉林摄影出版社 2003
《致加西亚的信((中英对照))》 (美)阿尔伯特·哈伯德著 京华出版社 2005
《自动自发》 (美)阿尔伯特·哈伯德(Elbert Hubbard)著 陈书凯编译 机械工业出版社 2003
《你属于哪种人》 (美)阿尔伯特·哈伯德(Elbert Hubbard)著 陈书凯编译 机械工业出版社 2003
《服从 完成任务的学问》 (美) 阿尔伯特·哈伯德著 Elbert Hubbard 剑东编译 当代中国出版社 2004
《别找借口 职业教育巨擘阿尔伯特·哈伯德致儿子的36封信》 阿尔伯特·哈伯德著 白山译 中国长安出版社 2004
Life
Hubbard was born in Bloomington, Illinois, to Silas Hubbard and Juliana Frances Read. He grew up in Hudson, Illinois, where his first business venture was selling Larkin soap products, a career which eventually brought him to Buffalo, New York. His innovations for Larkin included premiums and "leave on trial".
His best-known work came after he founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts movement community in East Aurora, New York in 1895. This grew from his private press, the Roycroft Press, which was inspired by William Morris's Kelmscott Press. (Although called the "Roycroft Press" by latter-day collectors and print historians, the organization called itself "The Roycrofters" and "The Roycroft Shops".
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Hubbard edited and published two magazines, The Philistine and The Fra. The Philistine was bound in brown butcher paper and full of satire and whimsy. (Hubbard himself quipped that the cover was butcher paper because: "There is meat inside."
) The Roycrofters produced handsome, if sometimes eccentric, books printed on handmade paper, and operated a fine bindery, a furniture shop, and shops producing modeled leather and hammered copper goods. They were a leading producer of Mission Style products.
Hubbard's second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, was a graduate of the New Thought-oriented Emerson College of Oratory in Boston and a noted suffragist. The Roycroft Shops became a site for meetings and conventions of radicals, freethinkers, reformers, and suffragists. Hubbard became a popular lecturer, and his homespun philosophy evolved from a loose William Morris-inspired socialism to an ardent defense of free enterprise and American know-how. Hubbard was much mocked in the press for "selling out".
In 1908, Hubbard was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves. In 1912, the famed passenger liner the Titanic was sunk after hitting an iceberg. Hubbard subsequently wrote of the disaster, singling out the story of Ida Straus, who as a woman was supposed to be placed on a lifeboat in precedence to the men, but she refused to board the boat: "Not I—I will not leave my husband. All these years we've traveled together, and shall we part now? No, our fate is one."
Hubbard then added his own stirring commentary:
"Mr. and Mrs. Straus, I envy you that legacy of love and loyalty left to your children and grandchildren. The calm courage that was yours all your long and useful career was your possession in death. You knew how to do three great things—you knew how to live, how to love and how to die. One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident. All disease is indecent. Suicide is atrocious. But to pass out as did Mr. and Mrs. Isador Straus is glorious. Few have such a privilege. Happy lovers, both. In life they were never separated and in death they are not divided."
Death
On May 1, 1915, little more than three years after the sinking of the Titanic, the Hubbards boarded Lusitania in New York City. On May 7, 1915, while at sea, it was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine Unterseeboot 20.
In a letter to Elbert Hubbard II dated 12 March 1916, Ernest C. Cowper, a survivor of this event, wrote:
I can not say specifically where your father and Mrs. Hubbard were when the torpedoes hit, but I can tell you just what happened after that. They emerged from their room, which was on the port side of the vessel, and came on to the boat-deck.
Neither appeared perturbed in the least. Your father and Mrs. Hubbard linked arms—the fashion in which they always walked the deck—and stood apparently wondering what to do. I passed him with a baby which I was taking to a lifeboat when he said, 'Well, Jack, they have got us. They are a damn sight worse than I ever thought they were.'
They did not move very far away from where they originally stood. As I moved to the other side of the ship, in preparation for a jump when the right moment came, I called to him, 'What are you going to do?' and he just shook his head, while Mrs. Hubbard smiled and said, 'There does not seem to be anything to do.'
The expression seemed to produce action on the part of your father, for then he did one of the most dramatic things I ever saw done. He simply turned with Mrs. Hubbard and entered a room on the top deck, the door of which was open, and closed it behind him.
It was apparent that his idea was that they should die together, and not risk being parted on going into the water.
The Roycroft Shops, run by Hubbard's son, Elbert Hubbard II, operated until 1938.
Posthumous renown
Owing to his prolific publications, Hubbard was a renowned figure in his day. Contributors to a 360-page book published by Roycrofters and entitled In Memoriam: Elbert and Alice Hubbard included such luminaries as meat-packing magnate J. Ogden Armour, business theorist and Babson College founder Roger Babson, botanist and horticulturalist Luther Burbank, seed-company founder W. Atlee Burpee, ketchup magnate Henry J. Heinz, National Park Service founder Franklin Knight Lane, success writer Orison Swett Marden, inventor of the modern comic strip Richard F. Outcault, poet James Whitcomb Riley, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elihu Root, evangelist Billy Sunday, political leader Booker T. Washington, and poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Hubbard is an ancestor of singer Brodie Foster Hubbard. Another book which was written by Mr. Hubbard is entitled "Health and Wealth". It was published in 1908 and includes many short truisms that are in line with the Truth movement and Transcendentalists concerning using intelligence to rid one of fear and, thus, to bring the body back to health and happiness which leads to true wealth through service to others.