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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), MacCRACKENracken, Henry Mitchell 1840- (search)
MacCRACKENracken, Henry Mitchell 1840- Educator; born in Oxford, O., Sept. 28, 1840; graduated at the Miami University in 1857; studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and in the universities of Tubingen and Berlin. In 1863-68 he was pastor of the Westminster Church in Columbus. O., and in 1868-80 of the First Presbyterian Church in Toledo, O. He was elected chancellor of the Western University in Pittsburg in 1880; vice-chancellor and Professor of Philosophy in the University of New York in 1884, and chancellor of the latter institution in 1891. He is author of Tercentenary of Presbyterianism; Kant and Lotze; A Metropolitan University; Leaders of the Church universal, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schaff, Philip 1819-1893 (search)
Schaff, Philip 1819-1893 Clergyman; born in Coire, Switzerland, Jan. 1, 1819; educated at the universities of Tubingen, Halle, and Berlin; was ordained in the German Reformed Church; came to the United States in 1844; Professor in German Reformed Seminary in Mercersburg, Pa., in 1844-63; and Professor of Sacred Literature in Union Theological Seminary in 1870-93. He was chairman of the American committee organized in 1871 to cooperate with the English committee on Bible revision. When this great work was Finished—to which he had applied himself with indefatigable zeal—he went to England to arrange for its publication. He was the author of Sketch of the political, social, and religious character of the United States; Lectures on the Civil War and the overthrow of slavery in America; Historical account of the work of the American committee of revision of the English version, etc., and co-editor of The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of religious knowledge, etc. He died in New York C
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schem, Alexander Jacob 1826-1881 (search)
Schem, Alexander Jacob 1826-1881 Author; born in Wiedenbruck, Prussia, March 16, 1826; educated in Bonn and Tubingen; came to the United States in 1851; Professor of Ancient and Modern Languages at Dickinson College in 1854-60, and then devoted himself to literature; was superintendent of the New York City public schools in 1874-81. He was the author of Schem's Statistics of the world; American ecclesiastical almanac; Cyclopaedia of education (with Henry Kiddle), etc. He died in West Hoboken, N. J., May 21, 1881.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
iend of Tocqueville. a member of the legislative body. After the dinner, which was very simple, the Society proceeded to consider several topics of political economy, and then, particularly at the suggestion of M. Passy, an ,old Minister of Finance, began to interrogate me. Professor Mohl Robert Mohl (1799-1875). Sumner wrote to Chevalier, in accepting an invitation to drive with him and Professor Mohl to the dinner: I am not a stranger to the writings of Professor Mohl, who was once of Tubingen. His appreciation of the history and institutions of my country is marvellous, beginning with his labors twenty years ago, and showing itself in his late masterly work on public law, which I trust soon to see finished. The dinner to which you invite me has an additional attraction in his promised presence. of Germany, who has just produced a remarkable work on public law, was another guest. In the course of the dinner I was led to think, from something which fell from the president and h
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
report of the expedition the chapter on botany. Meanwhile he had become interested in Sanskrit; he studied it in his leisure time during the survey, and immediately afterward went to Yale for graduate study in the Department of Philosophy and the Arts, which Professor Salisbury had been active in organizing (1846-48), and which was the first graduate school of genuine university rank in the United States. From 1850 to 1853 Whitney studied in Berlin under Weber, Bopp, and Lepsius, and at Tubingen under Roth. Returning to the United States in 1853, he was next year appointed Salisbury's successor in the chair of Sanskrit, his duties including instruction in the modern languages. He was not released from undergraduate teaching until 1869, when Salisbury increased the endowment of Whitney's Yale professorship, and Whitney became the only university professor . . . in the whole country. He was now enabled to organize fully a graduate school of philology, which very soon attracted ab
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 4: 1829-1830: Aet. 22-23. (search)
position of a follower in the ranks that gather around a master, or he aspires to be a master himself. The time had come when even the small allowance I received from borrowed capital must cease. I was now twenty-four years of age. I was Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine, and author of a quarto volume on the fishes of Brazil. I had traveled on foot all over Southern Germany, visited Vienna, and explored extensive tracts of the Alps. I knew every animal, living and fossil, in the Museums of Munich, Stuttgart, Tubingen, Erlangen, Wurzburg, Carlsruhe, and Frankfort; but my prospects were as dark as ever, and I saw no hope of making my way in the world, except by the practical pursuit of my profession as physician. So, at the close of 1830, I left the university and went home, with the intention of applying myself to the practice of medicine, confident that my theoretical information and my training in the art of observing would carry me through the new ordeal I was about to meet.