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

    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.

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