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阿尔伯特·哈伯德1856年7月19日哈伯德出生於美國伊利諾州的布魯明頓，父親既是農場主又是鄉村醫生。他在塔福學院獲得學士學位，又在芝加哥大禮堂獲得法學博士學位。他曾經做過教師、出版商、編輯和演說傢，1895年，在紐約東奧羅拉創立了羅伊剋夫特公司，製造和銷售各種手工藝品，隨後又開設了一傢印刷裝訂廠。1899年，他根據安德魯·薩默斯·羅文的英勇事跡，創作了鼓舞人心的《緻加西亞的信》。
1899年，阿爾伯特·哈伯德創作了《把信送給加西亞》，在《菲士利人》雜志上發表後，引起了全世界的強烈轟動，這本小册子在世界各地廣為流傳，全球銷量超過8億册，成為有史以來世界上最暢銷的讀物之一，列入全球最暢銷圖書排行榜第六名。1908年，阿爾伯特·哈伯德在《把信送給加西亞》的基礎上，又創作了內容更全面，思想更深刻的商業佳作《雙贏規則》，更深入地闡述了主動、自信、敬業、忠誠、勤奮的偉大思想。該書是對，《把信送給加西亞》一書思想的高度提煉和升華，是作者商業思想最完美的集合；同時，也是一本為人們帶來成功與財富的神奇讀物。近一個世紀以來，全世界無數的政府、企業、軍隊和學校，都將此讀物作為公務員、職員、士兵和大學生的培訓讀本，影響了一代又一代人的思想。
哈伯德終生致力於出版和寫作，除了為自創的兩份雜志撰稿外，其主要著作還有《短暫的旅行》、《現在的力量》、《自己是最大的敵人》、《一天》等。
1915年5月7日，哈伯德和他的妻子乘坐路西塔尼亞號客輪不幸在愛爾蘭海遇難。
相關圖書： 《緻加西亞的信(全譯本)》 (美)阿爾伯特·哈伯德著 吉林攝影出版社 2003
《緻加西亞的信((中英對照))》 (美)阿爾伯特·哈伯德著 京華出版社 2005
《自動自發》 (美)阿爾伯特·哈伯德(Elbert Hubbard)著 陳書凱編譯 機械工業出版社 2003
《你屬於哪種人》 (美)阿爾伯特·哈伯德(Elbert Hubbard)著 陳書凱編譯 機械工業出版社 2003
《服從 完成任務的學問》 (美) 阿爾伯特·哈伯德著 Elbert Hubbard 劍東編譯 當代中國出版社 2004
《別找藉口 職業教育巨擘阿爾伯特·哈伯德緻兒子的36封信》 阿爾伯特·哈伯德著 白山譯 中國長安出版社 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.