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Bancroft, George,
Historian; horn in Worcester, Mass., Oct. 3, 1800: son of Rev. Aaron Bancroft, a distinguished Unitarian clergyman and pioneer in liberal Christianity.
He graduated at Harvard in 1817; studied at the German universities, and received, at Gottingen, the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy when he was only twenty years of age. He resided some time in Berlin in the society of distinguished scholars, and on his return home, in 1822, he became a tutor of Greek in Harvard University.
He published a volume of poems in 1823.
and in 1824 a translation of Heeren's Politics of ancient Grecce.
In 1823, in conjunction with J. G. Cogswell, he established the celebrated Round Hill School, at Northampton, Mass. While in the German universities, Mr. Bancroft studied with avidity whatever was taught in them, but made history a specialty.
His chief tutors there were Heeren.
Eichhorn, and Blumenbach.
At Berlin he became intimate with Wilhelm von Humboldt and other eminent
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