John Milton Mackie
John Milton Mackie (19 December 1813, in Wareham, Massachusetts – 27 July 1894, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts) was a United States writer who specialized in topics from German history and literature.
Biography
He graduated from Brown University in 1832, and studied at the University of Berlin, Germany, 1833-1834. On his return to the United States, he was tutor at Brown 1835-1838. He contributed articles on German topics to the North American Review, American Whig Review, and Christian.
Books
- Life of Godfrey William von Leibnitz, with Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer (Boston, 1845) at archive.org
- Life of Samuel Gorton in Sparks's “American Biography” series (1848)
- Cosas de España, or Going to Madrid via Barcelona (New York, 1848)
- Life of Schamyl, the Circassian Chief (1856)
- Life of Tai-Ping-Wang, Chief of the Chinese Insurrection (1857)
- From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics (1864)
Notes
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gollark: Idea: flag esolang?
gollark: They would be roughly as meaningful.
gollark: What if we *randomly generate* horizontal stripe patterns?
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References
- "John Milton Mackie (1813 - 1894)". genealogytoday.com. Retrieved 21 February 2012. This work in turn cites Andover Theological Seminary 1894-95 Necrology, pg. 146.
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
External links
- Works by John Milton Mackie at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Milton Mackie at Internet Archive
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