Name: 10位在世界發現他們的天才之前就已逝去的傳奇人物！ (10 People Who Died Before the World Realized Their Genius)
Uploaded: 2025-11-29T17:08:06.000Z
Duration: 11 min 53 s

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If there's any one single person who can be said to have created modern science, it's got to be Galileo.

如果說有哪一個人可以被稱為現代科學的奠基者，那絕對非伽利略莫屬。

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And today we're looking at artists, scientists and visionaries who died in obscurity, dismissal, or even disgrace, only to be hailed as icons long after their final breath.

今天我們要來看看那些生前默默無聞、被輕視，甚至蒙羞，卻在離世後才被奉為偶像的藝術家、科學家和夢想家。

The ability to explain hereditary diseases and to engineer plants with desired properties are all consequences of the fundamental theory founded by Mendel H.P.

解釋遺傳疾病的能力，以及培育出具備特定特性的植物，這些都是孟德爾 H.P. 所創立的基礎理論所帶來的成果。

lovecraft, one whose name has become an adjective for the particular type of terror he inspired.

洛夫克拉夫特，他的名字本身就成了一種形容詞，用來描述他所啟發的那種獨特恐怖。

Now considered the father of cosmic horror, H.P.

現在被譽為宇宙恐怖之父的 H.P.

lovecraft was virtually unknown during his lifetime, publishing most of his works in pulp magazines like Weird Tales.

洛夫克拉夫特在他生前幾乎不為人知，他的大部分作品都發表在像《詭麗幻譚》這樣的廉價雜誌上。

Lovecraft's unsettling vision of ancient gods, forbidden knowledge, and existential dread never reached a broad audience.

洛夫克拉夫特那令人不安的古神、禁忌知識和存在主義恐懼的願景，從未被廣大讀者所認識。

He died in 1937, convinced he had failed as a writer.

他於1937年去世，當時他堅信自己作為一名作家是失敗的。

However, after his death, his Mythos of Cthulhu, Arkham and the Necronomicon was preserved and expanded upon by dedicated fans.

然而，在他死後，他所創造的關於克蘇魯、阿卡漢和惡靈之書的神話體系，被忠實的粉絲們保存並加以擴展。

He he was widely dismissed as an untalented writer by critics and public audiences alike.

評論家和廣大讀者都認為他是一位沒有才華的作家。

His works were viewed as nothing more than fodder for young adults and eccentrics.

他的作品被視為只是給年輕人和怪人看的讀物。

Lovecraft's work would be a pivotal influence on writing giants like Stephen King and modern horror as a whole.

洛夫克拉夫特的作品將對史蒂芬·金等寫作巨匠以及整個現代恐怖文學產生關鍵影響。

Today, the Lovecraftian style is a genre of its own, proving that its founder's imagination was larger than the universe he created.

如今，洛夫克拉夫特風格已自成一派，證明瞭其創始人的想像力比他所創造的宇宙還要宏大。

Humanity has come a long way from what the world looked like when Lovecraft was alive.

人類已經走過了很長一段路，與洛夫克拉夫特在世時的世界相比。

But the contemplation of our role in the universe, or lack thereof, is still at the forefront of our minds.

但對我們在宇宙中角色的思考，或缺乏角色，仍然是我們腦海中的首要大事。

This Dutch master is now celebrated alongside greats like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

這位荷蘭大師如今與林布蘭和梵谷等巨匠齊名。

But Johannes Vermeer died, nearly forgotten in 1675.

但約翰內斯·維米爾卻在1675年去世，幾乎被遺忘。

Famed for his exquisite use of light and works like Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vermeer struggled financially.

維米爾以其精湛的光影運用和《戴珍珠耳環的少女》等作品聞名，但生前卻財務困窘。

His limited output and local reputation meant he faded into obscurity after his death.

產量有限加上生前名聲僅限於當地，導致他死後幾乎被遺忘。

It wasn't until nearly three centuries later that art historians rediscovered the genius of his work, stunned by his delicate brushwork and photographic realism.

直到將近三個世紀後，藝術史學家才重新發現他作品的天才之處，並對他細膩的筆觸和寫實的風格感到驚嘆。

Every little thing in Vermeer's every little point, every little mark has a meaning and has a purpose.

維米爾的每一個小細節、每一個小點、每一個小筆觸都有其意義和目的。

Vermeer's once forgotten canvases are now priceless treasures, exhibited in the world's greatest museums.

維米爾曾被遺忘的畫布，如今已是無價之寶，在世界頂級博物館展出。

A man who lived quietly painting domestic serenity became, centuries later, a titan of Western art.

一位安靜地描繪居家寧靜的畫家，在幾個世紀後，成為了西方藝術的巨匠。

Part of the magic of Vermeer is to create more than he then he actually is.

維米爾的魔力之一，在於創造出比他實際所呈現的更多。

Put down the sense of more there than there is.

放下那種「實際存在」之外的更多感受。

From a very early age, just instinctively, he was thinking about numbers.

從很小的時候，他就是憑著直覺在思考數字。

Numbers, he said, had personalities for him.

他說，數字對他來說是有個性的。

Born in India with no formal training, Srinivasa Ramanujan filled notebooks with equations, many of which he claimed were shown to him in his dreams by his family deity, Namagiri.

斯里尼瓦瑟·拉馬努金出生於印度，沒有受過正規訓練，他寫滿了筆記的方程式，其中許多據他聲稱是他的家庭女神納瑪吉里（Namagiri）在夢中顯現給他的。

His genius was finally noticed by British mathematician GH Hardy, who insisted that Ramanujan visit Cambridge.

他的天賦終於被英國數學家 GH Hardy 所注意到，Hardy 力邀拉馬努金前往劍橋。

He was able to take a little that he knew farther than most mathematicians would be able to take them.

他能將自己所知的一點點知識，推向比大多數數學家所能達到的更遠的境界。

He had the vision to see what was important.

他有遠見，能看見什麼是重要的。

However, even after reaching Cambridge, Ramanujan's work was so advanced that many mathematicians of his time struggled to comprehend it.

不過，即使到了劍橋，拉馬努金的研究依然非常超前，當時許多數學家都難以理解。

Ramanujan would die at the young age of 32, his potential barely tapped.

拉馬努金英年早逝，年僅 32 歲，他的潛力才剛剛展露。

Decades later, mathematicians proved the depth of his discoveries.

幾十年後，數學家們才證實了他發現的深度。

Many of his theorems now underpin foundational aspects of modern number theory and string theory.

他的許多定理現已成為現代數論和絃理論的基礎。

And it took the world generations to understand.

而世界花了數代人的時間才理解。

Manujan's work has now formed the basis for superstring theory and multidimensional physics, some of the most advanced math that all the high end scientists are still using today.

拉馬努金的研究現已成為超弦理論和多維物理學的基礎，這些都是當今頂尖科學家仍在使用的最先進的數學。

The pioneer who first saw the true power of the computer lived way back.

第一位看到電腦真正力量的先驅，早已生活在過去。

Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace, contemplated computers that could go beyond calculation.

奧古斯塔·艾達·金，洛夫萊斯伯爵夫人，她曾設想出超越計算的電腦。

Working with Charles Babbage's Analytical engine in the 1800s, Ada wrote the first ever computational algorithm.

在 1800 年代，艾達與查爾斯·巴貝奇的分析機合作，寫下了史上第一個計算演算法。

Unfortunately, she was dismissed as nothing more than a fanciful aristocrat dabbling in mathematics.

可惜的是，她當時只被視為一位熱衷數學的浮誇貴族。

Victorian society couldn't fathom her vision that machines could compose music, create art, or think symbolically.

維多利亞時代的人們無法想像，她預見了機器能夠作曲、創作藝術，或進行符號思考。

She published the first computer program as long ago as 1843.

她早在 1843 年就發表了第一份電腦程式。

It did not help her cause that she lived in an era where women were poorly represented in society.

她所處的時代，女性在社會上的代表性嚴重不足，這對她的處境毫無幫助。

It wasn't until the rise of computing in the 20th century that ADA's insights were hailed and she was recognized as the first computer programmer.

直到 20 世紀運算技術興起，艾達的見解才受到讚揚，她也被公認為第一位電腦程式設計師。

Today, her legacy lives on in programming languages, tech awards and every device powered by digital thought.

如今，她的傳承活在程式語言、科技獎項，以及所有由數位思維驅動的裝置裡。

This was somebody with enormous talent, in an extraordinary environment, hugely privileged with, with a background that made her a celebrity from birth, struggling for balance.

這是一位擁有巨大才華的人，身處非凡的環境，享有極大的特權，從出生起就是名人，卻在努力尋求平衡。

她要如何為自己的人生找到意義？

And the meaning she sought was to be a savant.

而她所尋求的意義，就是成為一位天才。

He'd eked out an obscure and unexceptional life.

他過著一個默默無聞、平凡無奇的生活。

But when the lawyer put pen to paper, the writer conjured a disturbing world where the absurd was commonplace and reality a nightmare.

但當這位律師動筆時，這位作家卻憑空創造出一個令人不安的世界，在那裡荒謬是家常便飯，現實則是場惡夢。

Franz Kafka died in 1924 with a peculiar set of instructions.

法蘭茲·卡夫卡於 1924 年去世，留下了一份奇特的遺囑。

In his will, he wished for his unpublished manuscripts to be burned.

在遺囑中，他希望將他未出版的手稿付之一炬。

His close friend Max Brod refused to follow his last request and thankfully, literature was forever changed.

他最好的朋友馬克斯·布羅德拒絕遵從他最後的請求，幸運的是，文學從此被永遠改變。

Kafka's stories were surreal and disquieting, exploring alienation, absurdity and bureaucratic nightmares.

卡夫卡的গুলির故事超現實且令人不安，探討了疏離感、荒謬和官僚體系的夢魘。

After his passing, Kafka's writing struck a nerve with a modern world drowning in systems and searching for meaning.

在他過世後，卡夫卡的গুলির作品深深觸動了那個在體系中載浮載沉、尋求意義的現代世界。

Yet during his lifetime, Kafka was largely unknown and deeply convinced of his own failure as a writer.

然而在他生前，卡夫卡卻鮮為人知，並且深信自己作為一位作家是失敗的。

Today the phrase Kafkaesque is found in dictionaries and his style is a pillar of existential literature.

如今，「卡夫卡式」一詞已出現在字典中，他的風格更是存在主義文學的支柱。

The man who feared being misunderstood became the author of an era's most haunting truths.

這個害怕被誤解的男人，卻成了時代最令人不安真相的作者。

Since his death, Franz Kafka's work has become enormously influential.

自從他過世後，法蘭茲·卡夫卡的গুলির作品影響力變得極大。

It remains unrivaled for its intensity, modernity and prescience.

它的強度、現代性與預見性至今無與倫比。

First and foremost, Bach was a brilliant musician, a virtuoso such as the world had never seen before.

首先，巴赫是一位傑出的音樂家，一位前所未見的演奏大師。

Although admired by some experts, Johann Sebastian Bach's complex baroque's compositions were mostly overshadowed by his skill as a performer.

雖然受到一些專家的讚賞，但約翰·塞巴斯提安·巴赫那複雜的巴洛克式創作，大多被他作為演奏家的技巧所掩蓋。

After his death in 1750, his works remained forgotten, surviving mostly as teaching exercises.

1750 年他過世後，他的作品被遺忘了，大多隻剩下教學練習曲。

It wasn't until 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn revived Bach's St.

直到 1829 年，費利克斯·孟德爾頌重新演繹了巴赫的《馬太受難曲》，世界才重新發現他巨大的才華。

Matthew Passion, that the world rediscovered his immense genius.

從《布蘭登堡協奏曲》到《平均律鋼琴曲集》，巴赫的音樂成為西方古典理論的基石。

From the Brandenburg Concertos to the well tempered Clavier, Bach's music became the foundation of Western classical theory.

Now revered as the father of harmony, the composer, once dismissed as old fashioned, is immortal and recognized as the silent architect behind centuries of music.

現在被尊為和聲之父的這位作曲家，曾被認為過時，如今卻是不朽的，並被公認為數百年來音樂的無聲建築師。

His attitude to composing was that of a medieval craftsman.

他創作的態度就像一位中世紀的工匠。

He believed that everyone has his place in the world where he should humbly work to God's greater glory.

他相信每個人在世界上都有自己的位置，應該謙卑地為上帝的榮耀而工作。

And now the poet Emily Dickinson is getting even more attention and a new look in books, online, on film and and in a major museum exhibit.

而現在，詩人艾蜜莉·狄金森在書籍、網路、電影和一個大型博物館展覽中，正獲得更多的關注和全新的面貌。

Emily Dickinson spent most of her life in seclusion, writing nearly 1,800 poems that she never intended to publish.

艾蜜莉·狄金森一生大部分時間都隱居起來，寫了近 1,800 首詩，但她從未打算出版。

During her lifetime, fewer than a dozen of her pieces saw print, and

在她生前，只有不到十二首作品被刊印，

even those were heavily edited to conform to the poetic norms of the day.

即使是那些作品，也經過大量編輯，以符合當時的詩歌規範。

Emily's stark dashes, unconventional capitalization and raw introspective voices were considered too strange, too fragmented.

艾蜜莉獨特的破折號、不尋常的標點和原始的內省聲音，都被認為太奇怪、太零碎。

She wrote on just about everything, including death, eternity, faith and longing.

她寫了關於幾乎所有事物，包括死亡、永恆、信仰和渴望。

With unsettling clarity, she she is a constant summons to me to think about language and its preciseness and not only its preciseness, but

她以一種令人不安的清晰度，不斷地召喚我去思考語言及其精確性，以及不只是它的精確性，

Still, the World outside her Amherst home barely had any clue of her works.

即便如此，她家鄉阿默斯特之外的世界，對她的作品幾乎一無所知。

After her death in 1886, her sister discovered her handwritten bundles, which revealed a poetic revolutionary.

1886 年她去世後，她的妹妹發現了她手寫的詩稿，揭示了一位詩歌革命家。

Today, Dickinson is hailed as one of America's greatest literary voices.

如今，狄金森被譽為美國最偉大的文學聲音之一。

The recluse who quietly reinvented poetry.

這位隱士，靜靜地重塑了詩歌。

她打破了詩歌界的玻璃天花板。

And Emily Dickinson is like a beacon of verbal power that will not be silenced.

而艾蜜莉·狄金森就像是一座永不沉默的語言力量燈塔。